Quality control services, namely a website at which harvest data, recall and other food safety information, and organic certification information about produce can be retrieved and product authenticated by entry of a product security code; providing electronic verification of on-line orders of digital content and generating electronic permission codes which then allow users to access said digital content; quality control services, namely a website at which product integrity can be authenticated at the unit level by entry of a product security code; quality control services, namely a website at which products can be authenticated by entry of a product security code; quality control services, in the form of an integrated platform, namely a website for validating, on a unit level, products, namely, fresh produce, throughout the supply chain