From the farm to your mouth, food travels a lot of miles and is handled for tens of hands. There are thousands of variables that could lead to a delicious apple or a thick tasty beef steak to get a person sick. This is why food safety testing is important.
Sometimes common knowledge or a simple eye test can tell if there is something wrong with food and shouldn’t be eaten by humans nor animals. These simple food safety tests can be with our senses by putting attention to the appearance, hardness and odor of fruits, vegetables, meat, dairy products and others.
Thanks to human evolution, nowadays we can and need to test the food that we are going to eat because not only of natural degradation, but also because pollution caused by industries and the use of artificial fertilizers and pesticides find their way to plants. This pollution …