Non-destructive wireless monitoring of food quality using near zero-cost printed electrical gas sensors

使用近乎零成本的印刷电子气体传感器对食品质量进行无损无线监测

• 批准号: 33486
• 金额: $ 43.5万
• 依托单位: BLAKBEAR LTD
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative R&D
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2019 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=33486
• 关键词: Non; destructive; wireless; monitoring; food

Food waste is a huge problem. In the UK alone we throw away 7.3 million tonnes of food each year. This equates to £13 billion. 4.4 million tonnes of this wasted food mountain was perfectly edible.Reducing food waste, without any compromise to the safety of food, is a major commitment at the Food Standards Agency. Heather Hancock, Chairman of the Food Standards Agency has recently welcomed the publication of guidance on setting product shelf life, and explaining what factors affect the expiry date of a food product. This intervention by the FSA indicates their support and receptiveness to initiatives which prevent safe food from going to waste.Sell-by dates indicate when the supermarket should remove the food from sale. Use-by dates are added to perishable foods such as meat and fish to indicate that the food needs to be eaten by this date, as it could prove harmful to health past this date. Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011 covers the use of use-by dates. Most sell-by and use-by dates are based on the results of one-off laboratory bacteria tests and microbial modelling. The food industry has understandably adopted a fail-safe policy on product "life", due to the multiple variables on how the item will be handled through its life-cycle.There is no incumbent technology commercially available for measuring spoilage in food packaging, meaning that there are currently few technology-led solutions to tackle and reduce this problem. Given the fact that the UK sources 50% of its food from abroad, reducing food waste and managing resources more efficiently are of paramount importance for building a resilient food supply.BlakBear Ltd build new chemical sensors, electronics and software to help the world feel, understand and improve itself. In this project, we plan to develop ultra-low cost packaging sensors for fish and meat products, to reduce waste and prevent foodborne diseases arising from spoiled foods.The project consortium is made up of three partners: BlakBear Ltd (Business Lead), Imperial College (Academic) and Coveris Flexibles Gainsborough Ltd (Commercial Partner).

食物浪费是个大问题。仅在英国，我们每年就扔掉730万吨食物。这相当于130亿英镑。4.4这座被浪费的食物山中有100万吨是完全可以食用的。在不损害食品安全的情况下减少食物浪费是食品标准局的一项主要承诺。食品标准局主席石楠汉考克最近对公布关于设定产品保质期的指导意见表示欢迎，并解释了影响食品保质期的因素。英国食品标准局的干预表明他们支持和接受防止安全食品被浪费的倡议。销售日期表明超市何时应该从销售中删除食品。在肉类和鱼类等易腐食品中添加过期日期，以表明该食品需要在此日期前食用，因为它可能会对健康有害。第1169/2011号法规（EU）涵盖了有效期的使用。大多数销售和使用日期是基于一次性实验室细菌测试和微生物建模的结果。食品行业对产品的“寿命”采取了自动防故障的政策，这是可以理解的，因为在产品的整个生命周期中，产品的处理方式存在多种变量。目前还没有现成的技术可用于测量食品包装的腐败程度，这意味着目前几乎没有技术主导的解决方案来解决和减少这一问题。鉴于英国50%的食物来自国外，减少食物浪费和更有效地管理资源对于建立弹性食品供应至关重要。BlakBear Ltd制造新的化学传感器，电子产品和软件，以帮助世界感受，理解和改善自己。在这个项目中，我们计划开发用于鱼类和肉类产品的超低成本包装传感器，以减少浪费并防止因变质食品而引起的食源性疾病。该项目联盟由三个合作伙伴组成：BlakBear Ltd（业务领导），帝国理工学院（学术）和Coveris Gainsborough Ltd（商业合作伙伴）。