Iranian Experts Make 1st Specialized Device to Determine Authenticity of Saffron
A knowledge-based company stationed at the Science and Technology Park of Sharif University of Technology, cooperation with the knowledge-based Pouyesh Tadbir Karaneh has taken an important step towards overcoming the challenges in the production, packaging and export of this precious spice by designing and building a portable spectrometer system for analyzing saffron in the wavelength range of 400 to 1,000 nanometers for rapid, on-site and in the solid phase analysis.
“The portable spectrometer for analyzing saffron based on various techniques of artificial intelligence, pattern recognition and regression will create a huge revolution for Iranian saffron to process the spectra obtained from the analysis of saffron samples from different regions of Iran and to verify the authenticity of saffron, determine the geographical origin of saffron samples and also create an identity card,” said Hadi Parastar Shahri, an associate professor of the Faculty of Chemistry and the managing-director of Pars Sanjesh Noavar Sharif Company.
“The portable spectrophotometer for saffron analysis will be the first specialized device for determining the authenticity of saffron in Iran which will allow the user to perform on-site analysis,” he added.
In a relevant development in October, an Iranian knowledge-based company had increased the quality and production of saffron by making a saffron flower cleaning machine.
The company produces agricultural sorting machines and it has received the knowledge-based license for two of its products, dry fruit sorting machine and saffron flower cleaning machine.
The dry fruit sorter is used in factories that operate in the agricultural field to sort dry fruits, figs, dates and pistachios.
The saffron flower processing machine produced by the knowledge-based company is mainly used by farmers after collecting saffron flower from the fields, and it processes the flower by separating the red stigma of saffron from other components.
The saffron flower can be stored for up to two days after picking, and if it is not processed, the product will be withered and this device is effective in reducing the waste of saffron flower.
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