29 May 2018
The transparent patch can monitor the contents for harmful pathogens such as E. coli and Salmonella. The new technology has the potential to replace the traditional „best before“ date on food and drinks alike with a definitive indication that it‘s time to chuck that roast or pour out that milk.
„In the future, if you go to a store and you want to be sure the meat you‘re buying is safe at any point before you use it, you‘ll have a much more reliable way than the expiration date,“ says lead author Hanie Yousefi, a graduate student and research assistant in McMaster‘s Faculty of Engineering. If a pathogen is present in the food or drink inside the package, it would trigger a signal in the packaging that could be read by a smartphone or other simple device. The test itself does not affect the contents of the package.
According to the World Health Organization, foodborne pathogens result in approximately 600 million illnesses and 420,000 deaths per year. About 30 per cent of those cases involve children five years old and younger. The researchers are naming the new material „Sentinel Wrap“ in tribute to the McMaster-based Sentinel Bioactive Paper Network, an interdisciplinary research network that worked on paper-based detection systems. That network‘s research ultimately gave rise to the new food-testing technology.
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Is that meat still good?
Is that meat still good? Are you sure? Researchers from McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada, have developed a test to bring certainty to the delicate but critical question of whether meat and other foods are safe to eat or need to be thrown out. They developed a transparent test patch, which can be incorporated directly into food packaging, where it can monitor the contents.
 Photo: McMaster UniversityResearchers examine a transparent patch, which can be used in packaging to detect pathogens on food. |
„In the future, if you go to a store and you want to be sure the meat you‘re buying is safe at any point before you use it, you‘ll have a much more reliable way than the expiration date,“ says lead author Hanie Yousefi, a graduate student and research assistant in McMaster‘s Faculty of Engineering. If a pathogen is present in the food or drink inside the package, it would trigger a signal in the packaging that could be read by a smartphone or other simple device. The test itself does not affect the contents of the package.
According to the World Health Organization, foodborne pathogens result in approximately 600 million illnesses and 420,000 deaths per year. About 30 per cent of those cases involve children five years old and younger. The researchers are naming the new material „Sentinel Wrap“ in tribute to the McMaster-based Sentinel Bioactive Paper Network, an interdisciplinary research network that worked on paper-based detection systems. That network‘s research ultimately gave rise to the new food-testing technology.
https://www.mcmaster.ca/
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