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A nanosensor detects pesticides in fruit within minutes

A new method allows to obtain nanosensors that in a few minutes detect pesticides in fruit: a bang for food safety

Gianluca Ricciodi Gianluca Riccio
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June 7 2022
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Today Georgios Sotiriou, principal investigator in the Department of Microbiology, Cancer and Cell Biology at Karolinska Institutet, is happy as Easter. And she has good reason for it: the study of which she is the corresponding author (and that I link to you here) marks quite a good point against pesticides in food.

Just think: up to 50% of all fruit sold in the EU contains pesticide residues which end up creating serious human health problems. And today's techniques for detecting them are expensive and cumbersome.

Georgius and his colleagues have developed inexpensive nanosensors that can be used to monitor pesticide traces in fruit. Imagine a store that equips itself with these tools to guarantee customers healthy products. Beautiful, is not it?

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The presence of pesticides in fruit, sometimes beyond the permitted limits, can cause serious health problems. Being able to detect it in a short time can make a difference.

A secret called SERS

The new nanosensors take advantage of a 70s discovery known as Raman effect or SERS, a well-established powerful detection technique that can increase the diagnostic signals of biomolecules on metal surfaces by more than 1 million times. SERS is currently used in numerous research areas including chemical and environmental analysis and the detection of biomarkers for various diseases. Today, researchers have found a way to make it easy to make, and ready for large-scale use.

How? Using the flame spraying, an established and inexpensive technique for depositing metallic coatings. In this case it served to distribute small silver nanoparticles on a glass surface.

“Flame spraying can be used to quickly produce consistent, large SERS films, removing a key barrier to scalability,” he says. Haipeng Li, first author of the study.

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Pesticide detection in fruit: the tests

After having "adjusted" the sensitivity of the nanosensors by experimenting with different distances between the silver nanoparticles "sprinkled" on the glass, the researchers started with the measurement tests. The nanosensors reliably and uniformly detected the molecular signals of the presence of pesticides. And they repeated the measurements after more than two months, obtaining the same accuracy: a sign that the system works and is stable.

Tested on apples, the nanosensors took less than 5 minutes to detect pesticides present on the fruit, without damaging it. Researchers are already testing other foods, and will then also target biomarkers for various diseases.

We are close to a future in which large-scale food safety testing will be possible before a product is consumed.

Bon appetit!

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