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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) by c0lo on Monday September 25 2017, @12:54PM (1 child)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Monday September 25 2017, @12:54PM (#572637) Journal

    The problem is nobody knows where their "ingredients" are coming from, how they are produced and processed. Not only customers should know this, every part within the chain should include control checks.

    Heh, you like to live dangerous, with the "regulation run amok, unnecessary red tape, burgeoning bureaucracy, starve the anti-business beast" pack's teeth stuck into your butt, dontcha?
    A good thing this Anonymous Coward-ness.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 25 2017, @08:48PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 25 2017, @08:48PM (#572790)

    My point was not for pro- or contra-regulations. Just that companies should have a look at the place where they buy their ingredients from, just that you actually know what you're buying and selling to your customer.