Urea Concentration Detection in Milk Using Microscopic Image Processing Algorithm under Ultraviolet Light Approach


Authors : Advay Bajaj; Aaditya Sharma

Volume/Issue : Volume 9 - 2024, Issue 8 - August

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DOI : https://doi.org/10.38124/ijisrt/IJISRT24AUG1182

Abstract : The adulteration of milk is a pressing concern for the citizens of India and people all around the globe. Due to a lack of regulation compliance and insufficient surveillance infrastructure, it is noticeably worse in emerging and slow-growing nations. One of the most common and dangerous adulterants in milk is urea. If the permissible quantity of urea in milk is surpassed, it could have a major negative impact on people's health. All existing methods of urea detection require time, expertise, costly chemicals, and enzymes, along with exorbitant instruments and instrument-specific expertise. The key to overcoming this challenge is having the infrastructure to detect adulterated milk. This study aims to identify a cost- effective and largely implementable system for quantitative detection of urea content to identify adulterated milk primarily for milk distribution centers in India. The proposed milk adulteration detection system, dubbed the MADS, entails a cost-effective, rapid, accurate, precise, and completely novel method for the quantitative computation of urea levels in adulterated milk. It is a device that detects the concentration of particles of urea in milk using a microscopic image processing algorithm under ultraviolet light. Using ultraviolet light and a proprietary program in Python, the isolation of the urea particle from the rest of the milk solids is done and the area concentration, as an average of the value calculated in each of the frames of the video captured through the microscopic camera, is computed. This gives the final urea concentration in milk, which can be used to check whether the concentration follows the government guidelines and exceeds the legal limit.

Keywords : Urea, Milk Adulteration, Image Processing, Quantitative Detection, Microscopic Analysis.

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The adulteration of milk is a pressing concern for the citizens of India and people all around the globe. Due to a lack of regulation compliance and insufficient surveillance infrastructure, it is noticeably worse in emerging and slow-growing nations. One of the most common and dangerous adulterants in milk is urea. If the permissible quantity of urea in milk is surpassed, it could have a major negative impact on people's health. All existing methods of urea detection require time, expertise, costly chemicals, and enzymes, along with exorbitant instruments and instrument-specific expertise. The key to overcoming this challenge is having the infrastructure to detect adulterated milk. This study aims to identify a cost- effective and largely implementable system for quantitative detection of urea content to identify adulterated milk primarily for milk distribution centers in India. The proposed milk adulteration detection system, dubbed the MADS, entails a cost-effective, rapid, accurate, precise, and completely novel method for the quantitative computation of urea levels in adulterated milk. It is a device that detects the concentration of particles of urea in milk using a microscopic image processing algorithm under ultraviolet light. Using ultraviolet light and a proprietary program in Python, the isolation of the urea particle from the rest of the milk solids is done and the area concentration, as an average of the value calculated in each of the frames of the video captured through the microscopic camera, is computed. This gives the final urea concentration in milk, which can be used to check whether the concentration follows the government guidelines and exceeds the legal limit.

Keywords : Urea, Milk Adulteration, Image Processing, Quantitative Detection, Microscopic Analysis.

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