Abstract
A patent application by the inventor GONG, Cheng (Potomac, MD, US), filed on December 22, 2021, was made available online on February 8, 2024, according to news reporting originating from Washington, D.C., by NewsRx correspondents. This patent application has not been assigned to a company or institution. The following quote was obtained by the news editors from the background information supplied by the inventors: “In 2010, it was estimated that food loss and waste was estimated to be about 31 percent of the total food supply in the U.S. This is equivalent to 133 billion pounds and $162 billion in waste or loss. The top three groups in terms of share of the total value of food loss are meat (30 percent, including poultry and fish), vegetables (19 percent), and dairy products (17 percent). Per the USDA, 21.7 percent of meat that enters the retail market has been lost as “not eaten” at the consumer level, and 4.6 percent at the retailer level.
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