To help stop the spread of food-borne illness, biomedical engineer Christine Schindler created PathSpot, which uses a light-based detection algorithm to scan hands for harmful contamination. Restaurant employees hold their hands beneath the scanner, which assesses whether they must be rescrubbed to eliminate pathogens like E. coli. Some Chopt and Pokeworks restaurants are among the 100 locations that have started using the product since it launched in May. —Jamie Ducharme
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