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CSIR-CFTRI’s Ranjan’s bio-luminescence-based tool bags Gandhian honour
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Wednesday, 23 April, 2014, 08 : 00 AM [IST]
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Our Bureau, Bengaluru
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Rajiv Ranjan, junior research fellow at CSIR-Central Food Technological Research Institute, has bagged the 2014 Gandhian Young Technological Innovations Award for designing E neovel, a bio-luminescence-based tool to detect hazardous materials and improve sanitary conditions at the rural level.
He received the award - instituted by the Society for Research and Initiatives for Sustainable Technologies and Institutions (SRISTI) - from Dr R A Mashelkar at a function in Ahmedabad.
E neovel helps to detect the presence of very low levels of pollutants like mercury, cadmium, arsenic and 2-4 dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (DNA). These could be pesticide remnants, which could be traced. Within half an hour, the device can show the presence of upto two parts per million (ppm) mercury, 4ppm arsenic, 16ppm cadmium and 100ppm of 2-4 dichlorophenoxyacetic acid.
Besides, it can also detect the presence of 100 colony forming units (CFU) per ml bacteria in samples of food, milk and fruit juice. The device has been designed using a marine luminescent bacterium and luciferin extracted from a new kind of firefly.
CSIR-CFTRI is an International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) 9001:2008 and ISO 14001:2004 organisation and ISO 17025:2005 National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibration Laboratories (NABL)-accredited laboratory which encourages novel research initiatives that could be transferred to the industry for commercialisation.
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