Mobile application: quality monitoring and control

Abstract

A food quality control mobile application can significantly change the approach to the care of people’s food. With the help of new technologies, it will be rather simple for users to read a code on the packing of food products and get detailed information regarding the quality of a product in a matter of seconds. On the use of the barcode system, all aspects of date of expiry and nutritive values shall be well indicated. It would also add clear and objective criteria to grant the consumer the ability to make an informed decision about what sort of food s/he wants to consume. It can also be connected to an actual-time database on food recalls, or contamination reports or any violation on standards regarding food safety then alerts are raised in real time whenever a user is almost selling or consuming a product that may be dangerous to his/her health. These features ensure that people are always alert any time there is a problem with a product being sold thus avoiding food borne diseases. With such an application, enterprises can also control the rate of freshness and safety of inventory with the aim of achieving health regulations and reduced wastage. On a basic and logical level, the mobile app of food quality can improve the food safety and provide clear information that awareness of an unsafe food product can be obtained just with a scan of a code