 For more than 50 years, food inspections have been done basically the same way. Health officials take a food sample and send it to the lab to get a health report. It's a time-consuming process and it's not foolproof. Not even close. In fact, every year an estimated 600 million people around the world fall ill after eating contaminated food. We definitely need a better system. That's why IBM researchers are creating an enormous digital database filled with millions of findings about microbes. Some of these microbes are healthy for humans, some of them are not. By studying their genes, we can learn how they interact within our foods and we can make food safety predictive instead of reactive. Microbes have a lot to teach us and finally we'll be able to listen.