Fruit held at 95% relative humidity, storage conditions conducive for decay and their
respective optimum temperature, showed nearly no decay symptoms associated with the etched
areas. Although some decayed fruit were found in the laser labeled fruit samples in all the
selected crops however, were no different than the control (non-laser labeled) fruit samples. In
very few instances, laser labeled tomato and pepper developed decay symptoms on the labels.
Despite having some fruits with decay symptoms on the labels (2-3% of the total decay), the
overall decay was not statistically associated with the etched markings.