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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

Uh, I seriously doubt it’s “much easier and more accurate”.

What’s easier than just someone eating something within an hour of you? Just how many tests can be performed on various food and what do they have to do to it in the process? How long does it take (hours I’m sure) to do these tests including chemical/bio checks, especially if you don’t know just what you’re looking for?

Sounds astronomically expensive to me, if nothing else.


129 posted on 11/18/2019 10:13:31 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs)
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To: the OlLine Rebel
Actually it takes very little time.

The machine knows what should be in a certain dish and notifies you if something else is in it.

Human food tasters are really easy to get around.

132 posted on 11/18/2019 10:15:43 AM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (A hero is a hero no matter what medal they give him. Likewise a schmuck is still a schmuck.)
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To: the OlLine Rebel
Sounds astronomically expensive to me, if nothing else.
I imagine some sort of photo spectrometry would catch unusual peaks in a food sample with a couple of minutes preparation on a machine costing a couple of thousand, but would only analyze that part of the food sampled; just as a food taster would only react to the part of the meal tasted.
199 posted on 11/18/2019 11:43:19 AM PST by Hiddigeigei ("Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish," said Dionysus - Euripides)
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