Hello Philippo,
the good thing about do this kind of work in underdeveloped or developing countries is the ease of good impact you may cause alone doing relatively simple sutff. Particulary I see it as an open field of good things to do. :)
I was looking for similar food tests some time ago and started this thread. But the kind of analysis was oriented to biocontamination or "biofraud" and not chemical analysis. At the time I got stuck on correct keywords in searching, but the forum solved this problem. Anyway, just FIY, take a look on this paper that might be useful.
In a quick search, the papers doing this kind of milk analysis use gas chromatography. So, to simply analyse the milk I would try a fractional distillation (this might be useful) and analysis by infrared spectrometry (I think someone here already mentioned that is building a DIY one) of the distilled products.
Good luck on your project!
2015-08-23 11:59 GMT-03:00 Heather Dewey-Hagborg <stigmergy@gmail.com>:
Great question +1----On Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 5:56 AM, Philippo Möller <philippomoller@gmail.com> wrote:Hello--
I live in a third world country and it seems like there is no bio hack community here. I am concerned about food and drinks I am buying and consuming here on a daily basis. I do not trust the food safety authorities here. For example, there are rumors here that diary products in the stores are not made from milk but from palm oil. I would like to test such things myself. Furthermore, I am conscious about excessive use of antibiotics in meat and vegetable production. Is it possible to test such things myself? What about pesticides? What about other poisons and pollutants that might end up in food products?
Basically I would like to test all of my food before I consume it. I am willing to invest time in studying the subject and I am also happy to build a little home lab. I'm also planning to publish my findings for other people in my country to read.
So where do I start? Are there any good websites? When I google "food testing at home" all I get are pages for food intolerant people. I am looking for a website with instructions on how to perform tests and what equipment I will need to buy for my lab.
Any help would be greatly appreciated and I am sure this question has been answered somewhere already but I couldn't find it.
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