Thinfilm, PST Sensors: Printed Sensors for Food Safety

The monitoring of food will enable consumers to have more insight into the freshness of their food and potentially reduce the 1.27 billion tons of food wasted globally. A 2008 report from the U.K.-government group called WRAP, the Waste and Resources Action Programme, estimated that 20 percent of food waste is linked to date labeling confusion and lack of information on its safety or freshness. According to a recent report compiled for the United Nations, this corresponds to 6.6 percent of all food produced, or about 85,625 tons a year.