Food Standards Agency Brings AI to Meat Inspection
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) is leveraging a range of artificial intelligence technologies to enhance its operations, including frontline inspections.
According to Andrew Gwynne, who previously served as a minister in the Department of Health and Social Care but has since been removed and suspended from the Labour party over offensive WhatsApp messages, the FSA is utilising both traditional and generative AI for various purposes.
This includes trials of generative AI technologies for use by inspectors examining companies that provide or prepare food. Gwynne explained, “For generative AI, we are piloting its use in our front-line services in the field by using mobile-based AI applications. The goal is to streamline our inspection of meat businesses by having AI help collate notes during the inspection process, which will allow uniformity in reporting and improve data quality.
We aim for this to improve the existing method, which involves inspectors carrying large amounts of equipment while taking written, paper-based observations.”
Additionally, generative systems are being used in the internal operations of the food regulator. Gwynne added, “We have also deployed generative AI tools to improve data quality. As most data from national and international food alert systems is unstructured text, considerable human effort has been required to extract the relevant information and then categorise it to a standardised format.
The aim is to reduce the manual work required in improving data quality, which will allow colleagues to spend more time deriving insights from data rather than cleaning data, while also improving the speediness of the response.”
Original story: publictechnology.net
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