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Europe's deadly outbreak of a rare form of E. coli bacteria has brought new
attention to food safety issues. One of the problems when people get sick
from food is that the simplest question is often difficult or even impossible to
answer. Just what did the people eat that made them sick?
Of course, one way to avoid these medical mysteries is to keep dangerous
organisms out of the food supply. This is easier said than done, but scientists
keep looking for new ways.
Scientists in the United States have developed an experimental system that
uses a high-tech optical scanner. The inspection system is meant for packing
houses where produce is sorted for market.
The system is designed to identify the presence of contaminants like soil or
animal waste on fresh produce. These can be sources of Escherichia coli,
better known as E. coli. E. coli bacteria naturally live in the intestines of
humans and many animals. Most kinds of E. coli are harmless but some can
make people sick.
The new scanner can also show damage and imperfections that might make
the produce unappealing to shoppers.
Scientists designed the system at a Department of Agriculture research center
in Beltsville, Maryland. Moon Kim of the Agricultural Research Service led the
team.
MOON KIM: "We were requested, we were asked, to develop a method to
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COMMENTS (39)
06-06-2011 Jean
Amazing machine! I have a belief that people get sick mostly because of what
they have eaten in their daily lives. Food which infected by E. coli bacteria
might make some people uncomfortable immediately. A great number of
people who suffer from chronic diseases like high blood pressure, diabetes
etc. have bad habits for example used to having too much sugar or salt in
their diets. So we should pay more attention to what we eat.
That is a good news. Nowadays, people must be face to face with many
diseases from unsafe food. Hope that, with developing of scientific, people
have strong life and long aged.
It's very interesting. The method just uses the UV and near-IR to detect the
comtamination on the surface of apples. I think the method could apply for the
food safety management and ensure the quality.
This is good instrument for process food before using. But how much is it ?
and the family in developing country can buy one or not?
There is now Food Safety issue in Taiwan. Every day it is being reported a lot
of relative news on TV here. I am so worried about this situation is being out
of control, and could be developed to hurt people's health permanently.
This dangerous E. Coli may infect all the food products. Therefore, this
problem is very important for humans' healt. We would like Kim Moon to thank
for his and co-workers' efforts.
good information
That is great news to people all of the world. They are waiting to find out the
good way to stop spreading of the new virus, E.coli. Some crisises later are
breakout of new viruses which are more dangerous for human.
must it put the good and bad fruits together for checking? anyway a good
reference.
thank you
I take much care with what I eat or I handle. Wash hands and raw vegetables
carefully. More and more diseases are appearing to get us sick. Teach
children to avoid put dirty hands in their mouth and wash all. I am worried
about how many resistent bacterias are spreading fastly around the world.
Thanks VOA
Good
07-06-2011 wt (china)
the food issue is aways a problem in any area of the world.what we can do is
to improve the technology of angricalture
i think this is a helpful invention.but it is difficult for our country to have it.i
hope it'll appear in my country on a near day.
08-06-2011 yangmay
food safty is a very important issue in these days.I have a bad digestive
system and I'm always suffered from the food that has problem.The food may
be affected by the ?yes,E coli.
Great!
What a news. very good machine. I beleive they will achive to invent that
machine.
This is great news. We ate a lot of food which may be involved ecoli
bacterias, but we can not recognize them by our eyes. With this invention
people can eliminate many dangerous disease resulted from not clean food.
Food healthy is becoming a hot and serious topic today, hopefully that system
will take effect in health inspection.
great machine and good job. we really need that kind of machine in our
country
09-06-2011 Fiona
Food safety is very important issue for people, we are very grateful to this
teams, looking forward to this scanner apply to the practical as quickly as
possible.
people in viet nam seem to immunize with E.coli , cause that 60-70% of street
dishes contain this bacterial which we enjoy everday, no need to waste money
on this machine lol.
We have to admit that the food safety issues have been a hot topic and it is
time to come up with the effective solutions to solve the problem because of
the food safety .this is easier said than done . we should take part in the
search which is the key to the food safety .whether it will pay off more or not
,we should insist on doing it .it has spare too little time to ignore the issules .
http://machahir123.blogspot.com/
In our country,most kinds of food are not safe,we have lose confidence,what
we can eat?Government is takeing action to resolve these issues at this
monmnet.Hope they can do good job.
cool method
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