{"id":11857,"date":"2026-02-23T10:56:58","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T15:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/?p=11857"},"modified":"2026-02-23T10:56:58","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T15:56:58","slug":"sniff-test-made-obsolete-chinese-scientists-create-packaging-that-detects-spoiled-meat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/?p=11857","title":{"rendered":"Sniff Test Made Obsolete? Chinese Scientists Create Packaging That Detects Spoiled Meat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<ul style=\"border-color:#000000;border-width:3px;border-top-left-radius:30px;border-top-right-radius:30px;border-bottom-left-radius:30px;border-bottom-right-radius:30px\" class=\"wp-block-list is-style-default has-border-color has-bg-shade-background-color has-background has-small-font-size\">\n<li class=\"has-small-font-size\">Innovative meat packaging utilizes\u00a0carbon dot nanotechnology\u00a0to detect\u00a0putrescine\u00a0levels, providing a real-time visual indicator of food spoilage through color-changing fluorescence.<\/li>\n<li class=\"has-small-font-size\">By aligning with\u00a0Total Volatile Basic Nitrogen (TVB-N)\u00a0biomarkers, the integrated biosensors work alongside a smartphone app to accurately quantify meat freshness and reduce global food waste.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Obviously, eating spoiled meat is bad. But it isn\u2019t always obvious when meat has gone rancid. The sniff test goes a long way, but there are instances when meat is already spoiled without causing enough of a stink.<\/p>\n<p>Bad meat doesn\u2019t just taste awful; it can cause illness and even death.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/news-room\/fact-sheets\/detail\/food-safety\">According<\/a>\u00a0to the UN\u2019s World Health Organization (WHO), one-in-ten people, or 600 million, get sick from eating spoiled or contaminated food, and 420,000 folks die annually. Unsafe food can cause over 200 different kinds of illnesses, ranging from diarrhea to cancer.<\/p>\n<p><button id=\"expand-paywall-button\" class=\"expand-paywall-button\">Subscribe to Read More<\/button><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thedieline.com\/sniff-test-made-obsolete-chinese-scientists-create-packaging-that-detects-spoiled-meat\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Innovative meat packaging utilizes\u00a0carbon dot nanotechnology\u00a0to detect\u00a0putrescine\u00a0levels, providing a real-time visual indicator of food spoilage through color-changing fluorescence. By aligning with\u00a0Total Volatile Basic Nitrogen (TVB-N)\u00a0biomarkers, the integrated biosensors work alongside a smartphone app to accurately quantify meat freshness and reduce global food waste. Obviously, eating spoiled meat is bad. But it isn\u2019t always obvious when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":11858,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[3438,3439,3440,973,3441,1465,959,3442,3443,3444,2398,186],"class_list":["post-11857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-packaging-news","tag-biosensors","tag-biotechnology","tag-carbon-dots","tag-food-safety","tag-food-tech","tag-food-waste","tag-innovation","tag-intelligent-design","tag-meat-industry","tag-science","tag-smart-packaging","tag-sustainable-packaging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}