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Olfaguard is an Electronic Nose for Smelling Pathogens in Food Factories

posted by martyb on Monday September 25 2017, @08:17AM   Printer-friendly
from the a-nose-for-innovation dept.

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for Fnord666:

A recent deadly outbreak of Salmonella has so far sickened more than 200 people throughout the eastern and southern United States. The culprit? Madrol papayas coming from three different distribution companies, all originating from four close farms in Mexico.

[...] Mitigating risk of food-borne illnesses can be a costly and time-consuming business for food manufacturers -- but one that is necessary. ...

This machine works by picking up on possible pathogens, running it through the system and then coming out with results, which founder and CEO Pierre Salameh says have so far yielded results with a 94 percent accuracy in the lab.

[...] "We provide an affordable method, but I don't want to save money for factories. I want to double and triple output within the same budget of what they are doing," Salameh tells TechCrunch.

Source: https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/19/olfaguard-is-an-electronic-nose-for-smelling-pathogens-in-food-factories/

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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by anubi on Monday September 25 2017, @09:46AM (1 child)

    by anubi (2828) on Monday September 25 2017, @09:46AM (#572603) Journal

    I believe this will also be useful in "smelling" diseases, as the lungs have a very thin blood-air surface, and things in the blood will diffuse to the exhaled air.

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by anubi on Monday September 25 2017, @09:50AM

    by anubi (2828) on Monday September 25 2017, @09:50AM (#572606) Journal

    Oh yes, how about a "refrigerator quarrantine" in case something really noxious ( like salmonella ) is detected in the fridge.

    Might be a good warning not to mess with that leftover chicken or egg salad.

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