Using Nano Technology to Indicate Freshness

By Miriam Wilcox-Barsalou,on October 14th,2010%

I have a fear of eating food that has gone bad. I’m constantly checking for expiry dates. A company is working on a device that could help indicate a product’s freshness in a much more observable way.

JP Labs (Middlesex,NJ) is working on a product called Nano-Indis. It is a smart packaging with self-reading indicators. The indicator changes by destroying nanostructures allowing the message to change rather abruptly after an appropriate time or process.

Some monitoring conditions in which the labels would work:

Time Temperature (is food done yet) Time-temperature (shelf-life) Freeze (Did product accidentally freeze) Thaw/Defrost (Frozen . . . →Read More:Using Nano Technology to Indicate Freshness

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I Love Plastics –Citrus Juice Bottles

By Miriam Wilcox-Barsalou,on April 9th,2010%

Seriously?

I considered writing my first “I <3 Plastics”post as a April Fools Joke. I wanted to write about PET (or other recyclable material) beverage containers. The processing and transport of beverages in the United States is an incredibly wasteful process. My post professing my love for plastics would have been an incredibly snarky look at all the places where we waste energy for something that has a main ingredient of water. But this blog is supposed to be about finding a balance between our society’s need for plastic based luxury items and the wasteful ways we treat . . . →Read More:I Love Plastics –Citrus Juice Bottles

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