date:Mar 01, 2013
Scientists have developed an electronic device capable of determining whether food is safe to eat or not by measuring its acidity - and this holds the potential to significantly reduce food wastage, which is estimated by some to be as much as 100kgs per person per year.
The sensor could be read by a scanner or by a mobile device with an appropriate app.
The plastic ADC (analog-digital converter) was invented by a team with members from Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands, U