The United States Public Health Service Administration is alerting medical professionals that a substantial percentage of cocaine imported into the United States is adulterated with levamisole, a veterinary pharmaceutical that can cause blood cell disorders such as severe neutropenia and agranulocytosis. Levamisole was previously approved in combination with fluorouracil for the treatment of co...

Abstract The following paper presents a construct for paper-based device which utilizes latex as the hydrophobic material fabrication of its barrier, was deposited onto cellulose surface either by free-hand or stenciled drawing. This method demands least amount expertise and time from use, enabling simple rapid experience. Several properties were characterized, such hydro head penetration rate,...

Food fraud has become an increasingly worldwide problem mainly driven by rapid innovation in the food sector and constantly changing consumer's choices. This led to increased necessity improve/establish reliable authentication processes, resulting replacement of protein-based techniques for dairy products higher sensitive reproducible DNA-based methods. Most used molecular methods include PCR, ...

This research studied the authentication of hazelnut oil by portable FT-NIR, FT-MIR, and Raman spectrometers. Hazelnut oils were adulterated with vegetable at various concentrations (0-25%) (w/w). Collected spectra analyzed using Principal Component Analysis (PCA) Soft Independent Modelling Class Analogy (SIMCA) to generate classification models authenticate pure Partial Least Squares Regressio...

Developing countries are considered to be more susceptible food adulteration, including milk a large extent, as this is global concern of the risks associated with it. Due lack monitoring, adulterous can pose serious health leading fatal diseases. In study, samples were collected from several supermarkets and minimarkets in Erbil city, capital Kurdistan region Iraq. 100 cans UHT whole cow four ...