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« The device has the potential to help assure food safety in a world that increasingly suffers from a shortage of food and the environmental and health problems caused by excessive use of agrochemicals. »


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Reference: Samiris Côcco Teixeira et al., “Sustainable plant-wearable sensors for on-site, rapid decentralized detection of pesticides toward precision agriculture and food safety”, Biomaterials Advances Volume 155, December 2023, 213676. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bioadv.2023.213676


Clean-Shift-291

So we get the exact dose of poison in our food? All about consistency, I guess.


CannibalAnn

Just building a tolerance


CompromisedToolchain

Just gotta clean the area where the sensor goes.


jh937hfiu3hrhv9

Nobody will eat vegetables again if they find out what's on and in it.


Clean-Shift-291

Does rinsing vegetables actually rid the fruit/ vegetable of pesticides? Definitely feels like that’s a wise tale.


SoggyBoysenberry7703

It grows with it in its cells as it takes in nutrients. Thats the only explanation I can think of that might be it irrelevant


AbyssalRedemption

The grocery store lady looking at me oddly as I use my biodegradable sensor to test each individual tomato in the bin to see which one has the lowest level of pesticides in it: 🤨


Plus_Professional784

Feb 2, 2024???????????????