Reports about “plastic rice” are likely incorrect according to a food fraud expert who says it could have been actual rice that had been poorly stored for up to a decade.
Chris Elliott, professor of food safety and founder of the Institute for Global Food Security at Queen’s University Belfast,
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University of Arizona researchers have created a portable method for detecting low levels of norovirus.
The analysis is done automatically by a smartphone app when a sample of water is loaded onto the chip.
Detecting very small amounts of norovirus in water or food samples typically involves a polymerase chain
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Smartphones might be an important tool for food safety inspectors because of their inconspicuousness. Researchers at Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences have found that phones used in place of clipboards can improve the quality of data collected during observations. According to a phenomenon called the Hawthorne Effect, people
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Consumers will soon have a mobile application, fueled by government recall data, at their fingertips to keep potentially unsafe products, from food to furniture to drugs, out of their homes.
The application, available as of midnight last night, is part of a wider effort to make the federal government more
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Smartphone applications are making life easier left and right. Need directions? Piece of cake. Want to know the top rated Indian restaurants within a 1 mile radius? Done. Care to track your jog via GPS? They can do that too.
Now smartphones are offering technology that could present a new
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