Poo-detecting blue light won't work on low-carb skidmarks

By at 2:04 am Tuesday, Apr 6

New blue-light sensors make poo residue fluoresce -- parents can ensure that kids have washed their hands properly and restauranteurs can ensure that employees are de-shitted before handling the chow. However, it only spots the poo-residue from people who eat leafy green veggies, which means that turdsmears from low-carbers may not show up.
"Nobody wants to have doo-doo on their burger," said Jacob Petrich, a biophysical chemist at Iowa State University who invented the meat-scanning technology with two scientists, Thomas A. Casey and Mark A. Rasmussen, at the Agriculture Department.
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