A Chinese graduate student has turned to technology to raise awareness of questionable food practices in China. Wu Heng created the Throw It Out the Window website last year after hearing about pork being disguised as beef with the help of chemicals. The site is an informative food scandal database that Wu and a team [...]
More than a decade has passed since Fast Food Nation was published, and I’d love to report that the book is out of date, that the many problems it describes have been solved, and that the Golden Arches are now the symbol of a fallen empire, like the pyramids at Giza. Sadly, that is not [...]
Researchers at UCLA have developed a compact, cost-effective device that can be used with a smartphone’s camera to detect the bacterium E. coli. This device uses ultra-violet LEDs to detect antibodies and nanoparticles called “quantum dots” in order to determine if E. coli is present in a food sample. While it may be awhile before we [...]
[On] Saturday January 21, 2012, 16 speakers and approximately 360 people came together at the Times Center for TEDxManhattan to explore some of the issues affecting the food we eat and innovative approaches to addressing those challenges. In addition, 60 registered viewing parties took place around the world, with the largest having over 450 people. via http://storify.com/foodtechconnect/food-meets-technology-at-tedx-manhattan-changing-t
