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posted by martyb on Monday November 26 2018, @12:55PM   Printer-friendly
from the beware-false-negatives dept.

https://www.rtoz.org/2018/11/24/food-safety-detection-by-mits-rfiq-which-uses-rfid-and-ai/

MIT Media Lab researchers have developed a wireless system that leverages the cheap RFID tags already on hundreds of billions of products to sense potential food contamination — with no hardware modifications needed. With the simple, scalable system, the researchers hope to bring food-safety detection to the general public.

The researchers’ system, called RFIQ, includes a reader that senses minute changes in wireless signals emitted from RFID tags when the signals interact with food. For this study they focused on baby formula and alcohol, but in the future, consumers might have their own reader and software to conduct food-safety sensing before buying virtually any product.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 26 2018, @01:25PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 26 2018, @01:25PM (#766434)

    does alcohol go bad?

  • (Score: 3, Informative) by rob_on_earth on Monday November 26 2018, @02:40PM

    by rob_on_earth (5485) on Monday November 26 2018, @02:40PM (#766446) Homepage

    RTFA
    "For this study, they used pure alcohol and alcohol tainted with 25, 50, 75, and 100 percent methanol; baby formula was adulterated with a varied percentage of melamine, from 0 to 30 percent."

  • (Score: 4, Funny) by DannyB on Monday November 26 2018, @03:03PM

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Monday November 26 2018, @03:03PM (#766451) Journal

    If an alcoholic beverage can have a worm in it, then it can have a tiny RIFD tag in it.

    This can be expanded to other food safety. By putting RFID chips into the food, the health of the human and how the food is processed can be monitored.

    Eventually the ratio of RFID tags to food substance can be changed until people adapt to eating pure RFID tags. Ditto for alcoholic beverages.

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