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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: 4, Informative) by c0lo on Monday September 25 2017, @01:31PM (1 child)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Monday September 25 2017, @01:31PM (#572650) Journal

    One should ask why papayas (plant) contain high amounts of salmonella (animal pathogen).

    Usually, fertiliser under the form of manure is the most common way - mainly poultry, ducks and geese [idt-animal-health.com] are more frequently infected than chicken - never eat duck eggs that aren't hard boiled for 15mins, their eggs can carry Salmonella infection inside.

    Shipping and handling:
    - infected humans (may be asymptomatic)
    - cross contamination in storage/during transport - see the 2012 North European outbreak [wikipedia.org]

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 25 2017, @08:52PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 25 2017, @08:52PM (#572791)

    Yeah, I know (the question was just a rhetorical one). Still, Papayas grow in trees, makes me wonder why they spray manure so high (probably from a plane), it's only taken up by the roots.