One out of six people suffer from food contamination in the United States every year which costs billions of dollars and thousands of deaths. This problem is largely due to the current reactive approach that is used for food safety. Most food processors/manufacturers send food samples to off-site laboratories to test for contamination. This testing process is tedious, time consuming, and a manual process that requires scientific technical skill. This results in a long turnaround time resulting in food being shipped to market before the processor/manufacturer receives results. If there is contamination, a food recall is enacted which results in an economic burden for the processor/manufacturer and a public health threat for consumers.
What if technology could identify contaminated food before it reached the market? Lives would be saved and millions of dollars in costs related to food recalls would be averted because food safety would move from a reactive approach to a preventative approach. Moreover, serious economic damage to our agricultural industry could be more easily mitigated in the event of a terrorist attack on our crops and livestock.
Ag-Defense Systems is developing portable foodborne illness testing technology that will allow user friendly testing at the farm, at points-of-entry, in processing plants and all along the food production chain.
It is the mission of Ag-Defense Systems to promote public health and well-being by ensuring a safe human and animal food supply through the early detection and identification of plant and animal contaminants and diseases.
What if technology could identify contaminated food before it reached the market? Lives would be saved and millions of dollars in costs related to food recalls would be averted because food safety would move from a reactive approach to a preventative approach. Moreover, serious economic damage to our agricultural industry could be more easily mitigated in the event of a terrorist attack on our crops and livestock.
Ag-Defense Systems is developing portable foodborne illness testing technology that will allow user friendly testing at the farm, at points-of-entry, in processing plants and all along the food production chain.
It is the mission of Ag-Defense Systems to promote public health and well-being by ensuring a safe human and animal food supply through the early detection and identification of plant and animal contaminants and diseases.
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