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Phone tech to shine a light on Brazil’s pesticide problem
Fluorescent light used in TV and mobile phone screens is being employed in a new capacity – as a pesticide detector in food production.
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Phone tech to shine a light on Brazil’s pesticide problem
Fluorescent light used in TV and mobile phone screens is being employed in a new capacity – as a pesticide detector in food production.
In Depth
Food forensics: how AI can smell authentic olive oil
Extra virgin olive (EVO) oils are highly complex. Here, Prof Chiara Cordero discusses the application of an AI smelling machine to analyse, qualify, categorise, and authenticate olive oil and counter…
Comment And Analysis
Outsmarting contaminants
Time-consuming off-site manual testing is being supplanted in many areas by faster and greater capacity digital 24/7 field versions. James Flewellen details how one new collaboration could overhaul t…
Interviews
Making tough choices digestible
“To eat is to compete in an arms race,” says Dr Chris van Tulleken, whose thoughts on evangelising through science, engaging food producers and self-experimentation promise another absorbing series o…
Focal Point
Pork tapeworm
This coloured scanning electron micrograph of the head of a pork tapeworm – Taenia solium – shows the hooks it uses to cling to its host.
