A domestic knowledge-based company has developed a multipurpose gamma radiation system that helps ensure food and medical security, in addition to bolstering strategic reserves.
The importance of providing food security and elevating the level of hygiene makes it necessary to observe international standards and protocols and, accordingly, use a gamma radiation system. By providing standard food security and a high level of hygiene, a country can benefit from export capacities in agricultural products and medical equipment.
An Iranian knowledge-based company Sharperto has designed a multipurpose gamma radiation system for this purpose, the news portal of the Vice Presidency for Science and Technology reported.
The use of this technology for the complete sterilization of medical equipment significantly minimizes deaths caused by hospital infections. It ensures the security of medical treatment by reducing the microbial load of food and preventing diseases.
By increasing the durability of horticultural and agricultural products, this system has also bolstered the country's strategic reserves.
By using rays emitted from cobalt 60 source and using a physical cold process, this method can be a suitable alternative to methyl bromide (bromomethane), ethylene oxide, phosphine and other methods.
This is because this system is able to sterilize products without changing their structure and quality. In other sterilization methods, microorganisms can be eliminated from medical devices and tissue allografts, but there’s a possibility of altering the molecular structure of irradiated products.
Currently, this system is sterilizing bandages and gas, blood collection tubes, cultivation environments, allografts and implants in the medical field, as well as dried vegetables, spices, potatoes, onions, garlic and other agricultural commodities.
The domestic system is cheaper than foreign counterparts and prevents a significant amount of currency outflow required for import.
The national master plan for the gamma radiation system is to help achieve food security, ensure medical safety and bolster strategic reserves.
The beneficiaries of this plan are the ministries of agriculture and health, which has been implemented in cooperation with the Center for National Master Plans of the Vice Presidency for Science and Technology.
Detecting Metabolic Diseases in Babies
A domestic knowledge-based company has produced a device that detects metabolic diseases in newborn babies through a blood test at the time of birth.
Mobtakeran Agah Hadaf Company’s development of the device using new technologies helps stop certain diseases in the early stages, the news portal of Vice Presidency for Science and Technology reported.
Metabolic disorders are hereditary biochemical diseases in which the metabolic pathways of various substances in the body are disrupted, mainly due to the dysfunction of an enzyme or its cofactor, a receptor, substance transporter, membrane, or structural component.
Inherited metabolic disorders are categorized, depending on the specific substance involved and whether it builds up in harmful amounts (because it’s toxic and can't be broken down), it's too low or it's missing.
Some metabolic disorders can be diagnosed by routine screening tests done at birth while others are identified only after a child or adult shows symptoms.
These diseases are mostly inherited in an autosomal recessive manner, which means a family marriage, or a history of related death, or a similar disease in the family. Other types of inheritance, especially through mitochondrial genes, are also seen among patients suffering from these diseases.
Congenital metabolic disorders can have irreparable impacts on people's quality of life and sometimes lead to irreparable conditions such as mental and physical retardation, and in some cases cause the death of babies.
Diagnosing these diseases at birth and then taking simple measures such as adjusting the diet can eliminate the effects resulting from these diseases in most cases and moderate the huge costs imposed on the patient and the society.
Accordingly, fast and reliable tests are needed to ensure timely and error-free diagnosis of these diseases, especially by the time of birth.
Also, these tests should be able to simultaneously track all metabolic diseases in one analysis, so that immediately after the diagnosis of the metabolic disease, preventive measures can be taken to control it from the birth of the baby.
The domestic device for this issue has all the essential features and can track all the metabolic diseases in one test.
Mainly designed for medical centers and hospitals, the domestic device can prevent a significant currency outflow needed to import foreign counterparts.
