The special device allows understanding whether the food in front of the people is safe to eat. The company provides a video of its application; a user placing the electronic chopsticks in three different cups of cooking oil. It is necessary to soak the chopstick into a substance, such as oil or water, and using an app on your smart phone you can get the information you need. Furthermore, the chopsticks flash a red light when cooking oil has a level of TPMs higher than 25 percent, or total polar materials - an indicator of freshness. After all, China is known for its several food scandals. Before the battered meat, which led to large multinationals such as Mac Donald's, KFC and Pizza Hut have had to suspend the sale of hamburgers, containing illegally added melamine and other industrial chemicals to dairy products in 2008, killing six children and making 300,000 others ill. It is not clear whether the “smart chopsticks” would go into commercial production, because the company has only made a limited collection of prototypes and any decision has not been set about the date or price. One question runs on China’s social media: “Is it really a good thing that they invented these? Can we still enjoy our food?” The gLAWcal Team LIBEAC project Friday, 5 September 2014 (Source: Shanghai Daily) This news has been realized by gLAWcal—Global Law Initiatives for Sustainable Development in collaboration with the University Institute of European Studies (IUSE) in Turin, Italy and the University of Piemonte Orientale, Novara, Italy which are both beneficiaries of the European Union Research Executive Agency IRSES Project “Liberalism in Between Europe And China” (LIBEAC) coordinated by Aix-Marseille University (CEPERC). This work has been realized in the framework of Workpackages 4, coordinated by University Institute of European Studies (IUSE) in Turin, Italy.