Quick Test For Melamine Developed
Scientists in Purdue University, Indiana have developed a test to detect the presence of melamine – even traces of it – in both liquid milk as well as powdered milk in all of 25 seconds. That’s a quick and easy way to separate the milk from the potential hazards of milk with melamine.
What these researchers have come up with in order to make this test possible is a simplified mass spectrometer which separates and identifies the molecules in compounds. Melamine in milk and food products was responsible for the deaths of children in China and so many pets in the US because the pet food had been contaminated. What was the need of the hour was a fast and easy test which has now been made possible.
