Eggs have been a hot topic over the past week after harmful pesticides were found to have been used at 52 poultry farms throughout the country. About 4.5 million eggs (10%) are thought to be infected, and consumers have been busy double checking their store-bought eggs, with some throwing out their eggs regardless.
One university student has developed a simple app to check whether eggs are safe for consumption or not. Kwon Tae-min from Baewha Women’s University created the app after finding it difficult to figure out which ones were the ‘bad eggs’.
The app checks the code of eggs in real time against the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety database. There isn’t much to it and admittedly took Kwon just one hour to make using what she’d learnt while studying, but it’s hoped that the app will help put people’s mind at ease.
“I was buying eggs at the supermarket and remembered the news about pesticides in some eggs,” explained Kwon. “I thought I better find out but if the eggs were okay or not, but found it difficult to search for and decided to make an app myself. People around me also seemed to have the same problem, so I uploaded the app to the store for others to use.”
Such an app was really a no brainer considering the amount of consumers that have become worried by the news of contamination. Despite information about which eggs are safe being broadcast by the government and on the news, many are still confused and unsure, and being able to enter a specific code directly should help consumers with any doubts they have.
The app is available for Android on Google Play, with an iOS version to also be uploaded to the App Store soon.
