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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.


"Putting food-safety detection in the hands of consumers

Simple, scalable wireless system uses the RFID tags on billions of products to sense contamination."


Media lab researches have developed a wireless system that leverages the cheap tags on food and can sense potential food contamination. 
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. 

I believe this is the perfect invention. There are many people who don't have a lot of resources and will eventually eat what they can afford. Sometimes that food isn't in the best conditions and people could fall sick; with this new invention, it can be easier for people to detect which food is good to eat and which isn't. People can even eat healthier food and the rate of healthy people can go up.

Source: http://news.mit.edu/2018/food-safety-rfid-detection-consumers-1114

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