Feasible Monitoring Of Food Contamination Using
RFID Tags
Sree Vidya Neeli Tarun Molabanti
B.tech Student, B.tech Student,
Vignana Bharathi Institute of Technology Vignana Bharathi Institute of Technology Vignana Bharathi Institute of Technology
Email: sreevidyaneeli@gmail.com Email: tarunmolabanti1@gmail.com
I. I NTRODUCTION
Food Contamination is an intense problem, this world is
facing right now. Researchers have found that food
adulteration is a delib- erate affair in India as unchecked
pathogen activity and use of excessive chemicals causes
severe problems which eventually leads to deterioration of
health. The state of counterfeiting milk and its products across
the country is such that 68.7 percentage of milk and its by-
products sold is not maintained according to the standards
deployed by FSSAI.
The World Health Organization (WHO) had recently
presented an advisory to the GOI expressing that if
adulteration of milk and its products is not controlled
immediately, 86% of citizens might be suffering from
carcinogenic diseases by year 2025.
Rapid, precise and non-invasive techniques are therefore
needed to predict the grade of food. Many solutions have been
derived over the last few decades including mechanical,
ultrasonic, optical spectroscopy and microscopy methods, but
these are all complex to fix up and do not run in real-time.
These are very expensive for many small companies and
individual farmers.
II. P ROPOSED APPROACH :
Fig. 1.
RFID tags are very budget friendly and are already
positioned on the packaging of food and drink items, so this
method could be easily deployed without incurring prohibitive
costs. All consumers are needed to use a specialized RFID
reader to determine if the product is contaminated or not.
RFID passive tags
VidyaSagar Potharaju
Associate Professor,ECE,
Email: proffvidyasagar@gmail.com
are transfigured into sensors that make potential to create a
non-invasive, tough and cheap alternative that could be used
by small-scale identities and individuals in the food industry
and agriculture.
Quality monitoring for the food industry to ensure a guar-
anteed quality of food products for consumers, reliable data
about the quality of the produce is needed throughout the
production and the distribution chains. For instance, in meat
products, the texture, nutritional value and appearance are im-
portant characteristics that need to be tracked. Rapid, precise
and non-invasive techniques are therefore needed to predict the
quality of food. Electromagnetic sensors provide a standby
that possess the capability to offer a cost-efficient solution that
can give the accuracy required in the improved inspection of
food products such as meat, butter, cheese, curd, milk and
yogurt.
RFID technology offers many advantages such as
automatic capture and data storage in a smart tag with a
possibly un- limited life expectancy, and is widely used today
in traceability applications. The modified standard UHF-
RFID passive tags are used to calculate the permittivity of a
food product over a time period. The variation in the
environment of the tag at the point at which the food is no
longer appropriate for consumption, i.e. the contamination
point, is detectable through the readable range of the RFID
tag. Even though the use of one tag will be adequate, the
design utilizes two tags which detect the orthogonal radiation
patterns to risen up the reliability.
The RFID sensor was first simulated and using data from
the characterization of the acceptance of a sample of meat
over time under environmental state similar to a store, its
parameters were adjusted to get a reciprocation between the
desired radiation pattern and the minimum read-range in
accordance to the permittivity at the point of contamination.
III. C ONCLUSION
This technology is cost-efficient and could help to trace an
outbreak back to the source more rapidly. We could also make
use of machine learning system to identify the quality of food.
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