MUMBAI, India, Sept. 12 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202411013404 A) filed by Patanjali Research Foundation, Haridwar, Uttarakhand, on Feb. 24, 2024, for 'a method of strip-based test for rapid detection of pesticides.'
Inventor(s) include Acharya Balkrishna.
The application for the patent was published on Sept. 12, under issue no. 37/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A method of strip-based tests for rapid detection of pesticides comprises: 3 - 8-gram sample is collected and chopping the same into fine pieces. The chopped sample is transferred into a centrifuge tube and added 3 - 8 ml pesticide extraction buffer into the tube with the help of a pipette. The tube is shacked 80 - 120 times gently and allowed mixture to be settled for 40 - 80 seconds. 0.05 - 0.2 ml mixture is transferred into a micro-centrifuge tube with the help of a dropper and spinning the same for 5 - 20 seconds with the help of a spinner. The micro-centrifuge tube is incubated in block heater at 60 - 70 oC for 45 - 75 minutes. 0.05 - 0.20 ml activity buffer is added with the help of a fresh dropper and spined the same for 5 - 25 seconds to dissolve the mixture. Dissolved mixture and 1.5 - 2 unit of enzyme are taken in a tube and incubated the same in block heater at 35 - 40 oC for 25 - 35 minutes. A substrate strip is inserted in the tube and incubated the same at in block heater at 35 - 40 C for 5 - 15 minutes so as to observe color of the strip, if pink color is observed on the strip, then it reflects presence of pesticide and blue color is observed on the strip then it reflects absence of pesticide."
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