Patent ID: 8211715

Claim:
A method for providing a unitary reusable consumer device for testing for the presence of harmful contaminants in a food sample, and directly transmitting unsafe findings to a remote monitoring facility, comprising the steps of: forming in a substrate a vessel comprising an interior receiving area having an open top, said interior receiving area being adapted to hold a food sample; forming in said substrate a holding well within and opening from a top portion of said substrate; configuring said holding well to receive and store a food liquifier during inoperative states of said device; installing a hinge mechanism having one end secured to said liquefier, and another end secured into said substrate between said liquefier and said vessel, said hinge mechanism being adapted for rotating said liquefier from said holding well to said vessel, for positioning said blade assembly within said interior receiving area, for liquefying a food sample contained therein; installing at least one harmful contaminant detector into said substrate proximate said vessel for producing an output signal indicative of the presence of a harmful contaminant in the food sample; installing a global positioning sensor (GPS) into said substrate, for providing a signal indicative of the geographic location of said device; installing a microprocessor into said substrate; installing transmission means into said substrate, for directly transmitting data from said device to a remote monitoring facility; and programming said microprocessor for responding to both said output signal from said at least one harmful contaminant detector, and said GPS signal, for operating said transmission means to transmit data directly to said remote monitoring facility to advise of the detection of a harmful contaminant in a food sample, and the geographic location of the food sample.