An Indian patent number 508659 titled ‘Bacteriological food testing kit (BFTK) for rapid and efficient detection of presence/absence of recurrent indicator and emerging pathogens in food sample’ has been granted to three scientists of Punjab Agricultural University (PAU). - File photo
Ludhiana, April 29
An Indian patent number 508659 titled ‘Bacteriological food testing kit (BFTK) for rapid and efficient detection of presence/absence of recurrent indicator and emerging pathogens in food sample’ has been granted to three scientists of Punjab Agricultural University (PAU).
These include Dr Parampal Sahota, Principal Microbiologist-cum-Head; Deepali Luthra, university librarian (retd) and Dr Bhavish Sood of the Department of Microbiology.
This patent deals with the detection of food-borne pathogens in food samples by simply observing the change in colour of the kit. This kit is auto-analytic, highly sensitive, cost-effective and user-friendly.
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