A teacher at the University of Basrah, in cooperation with a research team, obtains a patent for "Design and Implementation of an Electronic System for Detecting Agricultural Pesticide Residues in Raw Milk"

(Prof. Dr. Alaa Karim Naima), a teaching assistant in the Department of Food Sciences, College of Agriculture, University of Basra, in cooperation with a research team composed of Ms. Walaa Sabry Rahim, Prof. Ibrahim Abdullah Merdas, and Prof. Dr. Ibrahim Abdullah Hussein Aliwi from the University of Babylon obtained a patent issued by the Ministry of Planning/Central Organization for Standardization and Quality Control to enable them to design and implement an electronic system for the detection of agricultural pesticide residues in raw milk. The patent included the design and implementation of an electronic system based on the electrical conductivity of chemical compounds to detect pesticide residues in raw milk. It used a set of wireless sensors such as the temperature sensor, the acid function sensor, and the dissolved solids measurement sensor in liquids. These sensors were controlled using a microcontroller and artificial intelligence based on artificial neural networks, and they were trained to diagnose and distinguish between different types of pesticide residues in raw milk. It is one of the quick, easy, and low-cost methods, as the concentrations of pesticide residues, which are estimated at parts per million for each of bifenthrin and cypermethrin glyphosate, were detected, and they were identical to the quantities obtained when detecting by high-performance liquid chromatography and gas-mass chromatography.