Iranian Technological Firm Produces Nano Kits for Rapid Detection of Antibiotics in Milk
“The amount of antibiotics in milk was determined through laboratory tests and equipment like HPLC in the past which was a time-consuming process taking between 6 hours to a day but the new kits can detect antibiotics rapidly,” said Mohaddeseh Haji Abdol Vahhab, the managing director of the company.
She added that these kits have so far been imported from foreign states, including Denmark and Belgium, but their imports have faced restrictions and obstacles.
Haji Abdol Vahhab said that the prototype of the product has been produced in the company, adding, “At present, 3,000 kits have been prepared which will be presented to a number of milk producing companies in Iran to conduct preliminary tests.”
“A nanoscale certificate has been received for this product and we have passed the final stages of receiving the knowledge-based certificate and we have also demanded permission of the veterinary organization for our products,” she underlined.
In another development earlier this year, the Iranian scientists managed to design and produce a special kit for detection of multidrug resistance (MDR) of bacteria.
“The product can be manufactured in 30 minutes at a low cost without any need to complicated equipment,” Somayyeh Tirbakhsh Goran, a Ph.D. student in genetics at Islamic Azad University’s Shahr-e Kord branch, told ANA.
She noted that the death rate due to antibiotic resistance in the world has estimated to be 700,000 people annually, adding, “Antibiotic resistance of bacteria leads to defects in the treatment process of many common and dangerous diseases and disruption in surgeries and chemotherapy and transplant of organs.”
Tirbakhsh Goran said that there are different methods, including phenotypic confirmation test, double disk synergism test, 3D test, E test and PCR test, for detection of antibiotic resistance, adding that these methods have some disadvantages, including low sensitivity, high cost, and time-consuming nature.
“The loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) is a unique diagnostic method that works in isothermal conditions by using only one enzyme and 4 special primers,” she stated.
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