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Everything fresh? - A near-infrared sensor detects the condition of food
Physics Journal / January 2019
A consortium of two Fraunhofer Institutes and two Bavarian universities has developed a scanner to determine the freshness of food, because millions of tons of food end up in the rubbish every year, even though they are not spoiled.