FreshCheck

A receipt-scanning food safety app that cross-references your grocery purchases against active CDC and FDA outbreak investigations, alerting you when items you bought are flagged and walking you through what to do next.

Target user

US consumers worried about contaminated produce and ongoing outbreak risk

Features

Receipt OCR that maps every item to active recall and outbreak feeds, with severity tags
Symptom tracker that compares your timeline to known incubation windows for flagged pathogens
State-level outbreak map showing which pathogens are circulating in your area right now
Family-mode that watches multiple shoppers' purchases under one account

Why now

The largest US cyclospora outbreak in history, with 11,000+ cases across 41 states and slow-moving investigations, has left consumers unable to tell whether the lettuce in their fridge is part of the recall.

Signals · overall 5/10

Demand

5/10