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High-tech methods under study to reduce food poisoning cases
Planned SFA lab to explore use of smart tech like tracking in entire food-handling process
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A closed-circuit television camera installed in TungLok’s kitchen in Tai Seng. All TungLok Group restaurants and its catering kitchen are fitted with CCTV systems.
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Tiffany Fumiko Tay
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A real-time surveillance system that can detect and flag unhygienic food-handling practices and Web-based monitoring of food warmers at economy rice stalls are some ideas being looked at by Singapore's food agency.
The idea is to go high-tech and integrate tracking and other smart solutions into every stage of the food-handling process, in a move that experts say could significantly reduce the incidence of food poisoning.
