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Carbides are adulterants used to rapidly ripen fruits & vegetables
Most of fruits commonly use artificial fruit ripening calcium carbide, which causes health hazards to society at the community level.
Effect of Uric Acid on Human Health
Uric acid is an end product of purine which is produced during metabolic activity in humans while in animals’ uric acid is converted into allantoin with the help of the uricase enzyme. A normal amount of uric acid in blood does not have any...
Food borne diseases, a major threatens to consumer level
More than 200 diseases are caused by the consumption of contaminated foods or beverages1. Contaminants could either be biotic or abiotic. Biotic contaminants include bacteria, viruses, parasites, protozoans, fungus, or any other organisms or their...
Microbial Analysis–What you Must Know
With the ever-increasing contact with microorganisms, microbial analysis is becoming a requirement across a plethora of industries. Any industry where human health is at risk of being adversely affected by the presence of disease-causing bacteria...
Here’s Everything you Need to Know About Soil Testing & Analysis
Wish to make your plants thrive? Ever tried testing the pH of your soil? If you’re worried about the stunted growth of your plants, maintaining healthy soil is the first step towards rectifying it. And you can proceed with maintenance only when you...
BPA (Bisphenol A) Harmful Effect on the Human Body
Plastic polymers are a plethora of anthropogenic signatures which have a wide array of applications. Its existence is cosmopolitan in our daily life and now its exposure or encounter with human beings rise a serious question to the biological...
Coral Reefs Are Good Sources of Micronutrients
Coral reefs are the health indicator of ocean ecosystems which silently dying due to global warming. Corals are a group of hundred to millions of tiny animal creature called polyps, in which each polyp have a stomach with only one end opening...
All About Essential Oils
Humankind has been always fascinated by fragrance and flavor resulting in hunting aroma from centuries to centuries. Essential oils are aromatic, volatile, and hydrophobic liquids that are easily evaporated at ambient temperature. The name of...
The harmful effect of PPD and Ammonia in Hair Dye
Hair colors and their style have a staple beauty of a person to follow latest fashion trend which practices since long back ago. It is a major contribution to the first look at the completeness of your makeup. Most celebrities’ women and man even...
Testing of Drinking Water in the Laboratory
Let’s find out all about water quality testing and how it’s done in our labs. Tap water from community water systems is subject to safe water drinking standards. Depending on the condition of the water source from which it is drawn and how it is...
Organic Cultivation
The natural and traditional farming system again came back with a holistic approach to the green environment revolution. British botanist Albert Howard is the father of modern organic farming. He documented traditional farming practices in India...
Water Testing – What Parameters make this commodity precious?
Water is integral to life on the planet that we call ‘Earth.’ With the current pace of increase in population and drastic fall in the availability of potable water, a new concern has also surfaced. Water quality testing has become a concern of...
Food Labelling – The Guiding Light for Consumers & Companies
Modern-day consumers are savvy because they have read the “food nutrition label” on the product before buying. Thanks to the national and international regulatory authorities that they have set standards for food & beverages manufacturers and...
Changes in the Corporate Culture after the COVID-19 Pandemic
We have neared the completion of three years since COVID-19 made its first strike. After the industrial revolution, the pattern of work culture, social behavior, psychological behavior, and lifestyle of people stepped into the first-time…
Microplastics in Food & Water – A Health Hazard?
The term coined in the year 2004 – ‘microplastics’ – has become a global concern today, especially for scientists and researchers. Various studies in the last decade have established the presence of microplastics in food and water. The burning...
Proximate Analysis: Ensure your food quality
The quality of food products & beverages is the driving force that imparts the first impression of your brand. It is quintessential to survivability in today's competitive market. This is the 'health card' of your product that consumers are...
Why is everyone talking about Nutritional Analysis?
Since the advent of science and technology, a lot has changed today. This also includes the changed purchasing habits. Customers don’t buy food & beverages without checking the nutritional labeling. This is precisely one of the reasons why...
Food Adulterants: The Silent Killer Hiding in the Plain Sight
Food is at the epicenter of life. The times may have changed but the importance of food has remained. What scares us is that when food is impure or contaminated, it may be life-threatening as well. This puts the consumer in a constant dilemma of...
How to test water?
At least one color disk test kit is available for fluoride. However, portable digital colorimeters are often preferred because of concerns over accuracy. Ackvo Caddisfly, a testing system, recently described a colorimetric fluoride test that can be read by a smartphone app. Portable field testing options for arsenic are limited; this contaminant is best…
Factors to consider while choosing the Lab
Choosing an analytical testing laboratory or the type of test methods to confirm or identify the condition of a food or beverage product is not an easy task. Decisions need to be made on the types of testing that are appropriate or necessary
Naturally Occurring Toxins (NOTS)
Naturally Occurring Toxic Substances (NOTS) are naturally occurring toxins that are found in certain types of foods, which may be of fungal, plant or marine origin. The Death Cap Mushroom is deadly and its toxins cause 90% of all deaths related to mushroom poisoning…