This ingenious device can detect if your food has peanutsPosted by NowThis Future on Monday, January 8, 2018
How many times do I have to state my opinion.. if you cannot take the time to properly know what is in the food you are serving - and make sure your staff do also.. YOU DO NOT DESERVE NOR SHOULD YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO HAVE ANY TYPE OF FOOD SERVING ESTABLISHMENT! If innocent people are trusting to eat at your establishment, they should not have to bring any type of mini chem-lab or device to check your food - YOU SHOULD KNOW WHAT IS IN IT AND GIVE THEM THAT INFORMATION!
If your allergy is THAT severe that you don't trust the information given to you and you have to check it yourself - YOU SHOULD NOT BE TAKING THAT RISK! Why would you go through humming & hawing over it and risking "oh well let's order it anyways and I will check it myself"!?
First of all you're going to be charged for it, whether you can eat it or not, you could easily save that money and use it to buy already nut-free food from a store or the ingredients to make it yourself. And again if your allergy is THAT severe than you should NOT be touching it just to put it into a device anyways!?
This is simply teaching people to become lazy. To entrust a little man-made machine with their lives, especially if their food-based allergies are FATAL. If any food service owners/workers don't know the answers to what is in their food (first of all I would leave..) then they shouldn't be working and serving it OR at least give an honest "I don't know, i would greatly advise you not to order it."
But again this technology is probably going to be great for anyone who has minor allergies, such as lactose intolerance - I know many friends that take those pills in order to still be able to tolerate some degree of lactose in their diet. I'm sure that for example, this device would be good to give them some knowledge about how much lactose is in the food, in order to save them from some possible "discomfort" in the future. One of my coworkers mentioned that it may be good technology to use primarily if you are travelling to countries that have significant language barriers to your own. She recently took a vacation to Japan and it was hard to translate between English-Japanese to explain about her allergies. So yes I do think the technology could be very helpful in certain situations.
That being said, my food-based allergies are fatal. My allergies are to not only peanuts BUT ALSO tree nuts as well! I would never risk my life in this way during average daily life in my own country - travelling I may bring it as a very last resort backup... BUT If you don't know.. PLEASE DON'T TRY IT, don't touch it, order it or go near it.
