Detection of impurities in food items, spices, and drinking water using LASER

Tapas Kumar Chanda , Kriti Ranjan Sahu

1,2 Dept. of Physics, Bhatter College, Dantan,

[Article History: 10 Sept 2023. Revised: 25 Sept 2023. Accepted: 30 Sept 2023. Published: 5 Oct 2023]

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Abstract

The foods we consume every day change a lot of hands before making it to our household. Our food goes through a long and variable journey. Starting from the farm it was harvested into the packaging and retail, there are many possibilities of our food not being in its purest form. We should always aim to eat as healthy as possible, but it becomes difficult to identify impurities in food items which usually come through adulterating of foodstuff. Impurities in food can be identified and or determined by a hollow prism and a LASER easily. Here we focused on only three samples like, normal tap water on our college campus, tea leaf, and Turmeric powder.

Keyword: LASER, water, food items, spices, tea, impurity

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