Nerdy Science Blog

A fast and cheap mercury detection method was developed last week, and a method to detect pesticide in food has been developed this week.  This method is developed by ETH Zurish chemists, Renato Zenobi and Matthias Jecklin, to detect pesticide residues.  The detection method uses a faster mass spectrometric method to detect pesticide residues in foodstuffs.  A gadget can be designed so that consumers can know if the daily food products and plants they buy from market is organic or non-organic.  This can also be used for regular quality checks, but the quantitative reading cannot be read by this method.  The same method can be applied in forensic and medical purposes, such as drugs detection, human sweat and breath analysis.

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