“In the Pasteur project, a consortium of industrial and academic partners (led by NXP Semiconductors) developed multiple sensor solutions to improve the quality monitoring and control of food products. The quality monitoring of food products was divided into two main application areas, namely (1) cold chain of fruits and vegetables and (2) meat (carcasses in a slaughterhouse).
For the first case, a flexible sensor tag was developed which can log the temperature and gas conditions during transport of fruits and vegetable and based on quality algorithms predict a dynamic shelf life of each product. In the second case, a molded stick containing sensors can be inserted in a carcass directly after slaughtering, which can trace the decay of temperature and pH and therefore provide a quality of the meat (e.g. tenderness).
The project demonstrated that smart sensors can provide assistance in an improved quality control of food products and consequently contributed to food safety and potentially reduce food waste.”
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Romano Hoofman, NXP Semiconductors | Download presentation |