System and method to monitor and report condition of a consumable product

A method comprising:

• attaching a cap to a container to hermetically seal the container;
• obtaining a consumable product in the hermetically sealed container and prior to sale to a consumer;
• affixing directly to an outer surface of the hermetically sealed container a flexible substrate including a laser-detector pair in the flexible substrate to pass laser light through the hermetically sealed container to reflect from a reflector affixed to the outer surface of the hermetically sealed container opposite the laser-detector pair to non-invasively sense parameters of the consumable product;
• and
• electrically coupling the cap to the flexible substrate, the cap including a processor and a memory to monitor, analyze and store in the memory data on the parameters of the consumable product;
• and
• providing to the consumer an interrogator to communicate with the cap to access the data on parameters of the consumable product,
• wherein the flexible substrate forms part of packaging of said consumable product and is affixed to the hermetically sealed container before sale to a consumer.