UC Berkeley Researchers Develop Tiny Device to Detect Food Contamination
A team at UC Berkeley has developed a tiny, low-cost device that can detect food contamination and help prevent food-borne illnesses, which affect over 850 million people annually and cause 1.5 million deaths worldwide. The device aims to replace the unreliable "sniff test" with a more accurate, technology-driven approach to food safety.
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It's estimated that more than 850 million people fall ill every year after eating contaminated foods, resulting in over 1.5 million annual deaths, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
And although technology has commandeered most aspects of daily life, our go-to food safety practice is still a quick, perfunctory sniff test to determine the freshness of yesterday's leftovers.
If you wind up with an upset tummy after eating some questionable food, you're probably one of the lucky ones.
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