Mobile Application Development of Food Additive Calculation for Meat Products

Abstract

Food additives are used in meat products for food safety, shelf life and food technology reasons. The types and levels of food additives used in processed meats must comply with the state regulations in order to process safe foods for human consumption. Food additive calculator which is a web-based version, provided by The Thai Food and Drug Administration to help the producers in calculating maximum use level of food additives for all kinds of foods including meats, is found too complicated for small entrepreneurs with inadequate knowledge. Web-based version is also not responsive design and display to users view and is not mobile user oriented. Therefore, this research was aimed to develop a user friendly and convenient mobile application on Android Mobile Operating System for calculating maximum permitted level of food additives used for meat products. This mobile application is designed for calculating four kinds of food additives widely used in ten different favorite meat products. The application gives a correct results of maximum level of each food additives based on the type and weight of meat products. Therefore, this application may be beneficial to reduce the health risk from food additive abuse in meat products.