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I bought a yogurt that was sitting at room temperature. And I couldn't stop thinking. How long had it been out of the cold? An hour, a night, several days? Was it refrigerated again before I bought it? How can a consumer possibly know? According to the World Health Organization, every year 600 million people fall ill from contaminated food and 420,000 die. Improper temperature control is one of the leading causes. According to the FAO, the lack of adequate refrigeration causes the loss of 526 million tonnes of food a year, 12 percent of global production. That's enough to feed a billion people. As a founder of Sensify, there's something that deeply concerns me. Technology can solve a lot of our problems, but in the physical world there are still invisible risks that directly affect our health. And in daily life, the same scene repeats across Latin America: many stores switch off their cooling equipment at night to cut electricity costs. But food doesn't understand utility bills. Yogurt, milk, and dairy start to deteriorate the moment the cold chain breaks. Behind that everyday situation lies a bigger problem: millions of people consume food without knowing how it was stored. And a broken cold chain it's a factor behind pathogens like Salmonella, E. coli, and Listeria, linked to conditions ranging from food poisoning to kidney failure, meningitis, and serious complications in children and pregnant women. That's why I believe Sensify can create an impact that goes far beyond connecting commercial fridges. Our technology can identify which points of sale aren't maintaining safe temperatures, when a unit was switched off, how long a product was exposed to unsafe conditions, and where there's a potential risk to the consumer. Now I imagine the next step. What if every person could verify that a product's cold chain was never broken, from its origin to their hands? As an entrepreneur, I dream of building technology that does more than improve efficiency or cut costs. I want to build technology that protects people.