Quality control of Chinese herbal medicines requires reliable and rapid detection techniques, Many scholars have used NIR spectroscopy for research in medicine industry. The aim this study was to evaluate the feasibility combining machine learning predict adulteration content Astragalus polysaccharides. astragalus polysaccharide rice flour were mixed form adulterant with different concentration...

Cinnamon is a popular spice with lengthy overseas supply chain. C. cassia commonly traded as cinnamon, but the use of rapid methods to detect its adulteration has not yet been fully addressed. This work explores FT-IR spectroscopy for detection in cinnamon chain by several lower value ingredients. Two species (C. verum and cassia) an adulterant (cinnamon spend, n = 2) were used create 110 diffe...

Fouling and contamination of surfaces are prevailing challenges humanities facing today in fields such as healthcare, hospitality, food manufacturing. These strongly motivate the development multifunctional with antifouling antimicrobial properties that coupled sensing capabilities. To address this challenge, we prepared a superhydrophobic surface using eco-friendly materials: polydimethylsilox...

In most cases, herbal supplements found in illegal centers and medicine stores have harmful content that causes irreparable damage to people. As a representative of the green chemistry method, rapid efficient dispersive micro solid-phase extraction (D-mSPE) method was applied extract dexamethasone adulterant from handmade sold as power natural enhancing materials. The quantification analyte per...

Demand for high quality Basmati rice has increased significantly in the last decade. This commodity is highly vulnerable to fraud, especially post COVID-19 era. A unique two-tiered analytical system comprised of rapid on-site screening samples using handheld portable Near-infrared NIR and laboratory confirmatory technique a Head space gas chromatography mass spectrometry (HS-GC-MS) strategy unt...

Levamisole is estimated by the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) to be present in about 80% of cocaine seized in the United States and linked to debilitating, and sometimes fatal, immunologic effects in cocaine abusers. One explanation for the addition of levamisole to cocaine is that it increases the amount of product and enhances profits. An alternative possibility, and one investigated here, is ...