<p>From the viewpoint of ensuring food safety, there is a need to develop rapid, sensitive and specific detection techniques to monitor food toxicants, said M S Thakur, chief scientist of Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI), in Mysore on Saturday.<br /><br /></p>.<p>He was speaking at a special lecture series on material science and personality development held at Vignan Bhavan, University of Mysore premises.<br /><br />He said that pesticides and other fertilisers were entering our food chain, which needs to be checked to prevent complications on health. <br /><br />“Even trace levels of these toxicants can inadvertently enter the food chain and cause several health hazards.” he said.<br /><br />In his presentation, he focused on the applications of water soluble bio-sensors, developed with the help of nano-materials at CFTRI. <br /><br />He said that such bio-sensors are efficient tools in the detection of food contaminants such as pesticides, pathogenic bacteria and other harmful substances.<br /><br />Speaking on the recent advancements in nano-biotechnology, he said that the stability of these nano materials make them better than the other bio-sensors developed in the past.<br /><br />Innovator Somender Singh, speaking on the impact of human activities on environment, detailed the environmental degradation affected by human civilisation in the past two to three centuries. <br /><br />He said that the need of the hour was to reduce the damage done to the environment, especially by reducing emission of greenhouse gases.<br /><br />He also spoke on ‘Refined Combustion Technology’, developed by him, which burns the fuel more completely and efficiently in vehicles, and also brings down the emission from vehicles.</p>
<p>From the viewpoint of ensuring food safety, there is a need to develop rapid, sensitive and specific detection techniques to monitor food toxicants, said M S Thakur, chief scientist of Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI), in Mysore on Saturday.<br /><br /></p>.<p>He was speaking at a special lecture series on material science and personality development held at Vignan Bhavan, University of Mysore premises.<br /><br />He said that pesticides and other fertilisers were entering our food chain, which needs to be checked to prevent complications on health. <br /><br />“Even trace levels of these toxicants can inadvertently enter the food chain and cause several health hazards.” he said.<br /><br />In his presentation, he focused on the applications of water soluble bio-sensors, developed with the help of nano-materials at CFTRI. <br /><br />He said that such bio-sensors are efficient tools in the detection of food contaminants such as pesticides, pathogenic bacteria and other harmful substances.<br /><br />Speaking on the recent advancements in nano-biotechnology, he said that the stability of these nano materials make them better than the other bio-sensors developed in the past.<br /><br />Innovator Somender Singh, speaking on the impact of human activities on environment, detailed the environmental degradation affected by human civilisation in the past two to three centuries. <br /><br />He said that the need of the hour was to reduce the damage done to the environment, especially by reducing emission of greenhouse gases.<br /><br />He also spoke on ‘Refined Combustion Technology’, developed by him, which burns the fuel more completely and efficiently in vehicles, and also brings down the emission from vehicles.</p>
