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Food safety just got smarter

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Margaret W. Bushee, [email protected]

The hot-button issue of food contamination, it seems, is never far from the headlines, but until now, avoiding it has depended to a great extent upon the decidedly low-tech expiration date. However, thanks to technology developed by Brett Lucht and William Euler, chemists at the University of Rhode Island, soon a more fail-safe device, the smart bar code, will ensure that perishables such as meat, fish and milk are safe to consume. SIRA Technologies of Pasadena, Calif., developed the smart bar code from the scientists’ patented discoveries related to thermochromic pigments – dyes that...Read full article

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    Published: April 2009
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