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Fruit and vegetable film designed to detect pesticide residues – FreshPlaza.com
A technology, intended to detect pesticide residues on fruits and vegetables is currently being developed by researchers from ITMO University (Russia), the National…

A technology, intended to detect pesticide residues on fruits and vegetables is currently being developed by researchers from ITMO University (Russia), the National University of Singapore, and the University of Rovira i Virgili (Spain). It is described in a paper that was recently published in the journal Nanoscale.
According to an article on newatlas.com, the process involves combining silver nitrate and the organic compound melamine, then adding the mixture to a Petri dish containing a base layer…
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