Morning folks, I wanted to place this wunnerful news in the open thread but I don't see that up yet. So this is just an extract with the link.

It's by Tamar Haspel, food columnist at wapo (amazingly, there still is some real news there :=)

If this works, it will transform our relationships with food suppliers for the better. We could catch the cheaters, despite their labeling lies.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/food/this-groundbreaking-techno...

I have seen the future of food transparency, and it is optical. Also, it fits in your smartphone.

Imagine a scanner the size of a grain of rice, built into your phone. You go to the grocery store and point it at something you want to buy. If it’s an apple, the scanner will tell you what variety it is, how much vitamin C it has and how long it has been in cold storage. If it’s a fish, you’ll learn whether it’s really orange roughy or just tilapia being passed off as something more expensive. If it’s a muffin, the device will tell you whether there’s gluten in it.

Although you won’t be able to do it tomorrow, this isn’t some kind of distant Jetsonian vision of the future. I’ve held the rice-size scanner in my hand; it was built for only a few dollars. I’ve seen bigger, more robust versions of the scanner do the things that your smartphone will be able to do, probably during the administration of the president we’re deciding on right now.

Peace be with us, if we work for it with peaceful hearts (I say this, not because I'm good at it, but because I'm so bad at it :=)
gerrit