{"id":13978,"date":"2021-02-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/current_affairs\/uncategorized\/06-02-2021\/lethal-guinea-pig-test-scrapped\/"},"modified":"2021-02-06T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-06T00:00:00","slug":"lethal-guinea-pig-test-scrapped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/current-affairs\/06-02-2021\/lethal-guinea-pig-test-scrapped","title":{"rendered":"Lethal Guinea Pig Test Scrapped"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In News:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Recently, the <strong>Bureau of Indian Standards\u2019<\/strong> (BIS) Animal Husbandry, Feeds and Equipment Subcommittee has replaced a <strong>test on guinea pigs<\/strong> used for detecting and <strong>identifying pathogenic organisms<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Old Test:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It involved injecting guinea pigs with a feed sample. If the bacterium <strong>Bacillus anthracis<\/strong> or its <strong>spores<\/strong>, that cause <strong>anthrax<\/strong>, were present, the animals endured a slow, agonising death.\n<ul>\n<li>Anthrax is a<strong> life-threatening disease<\/strong> that can <strong>spread from animals to humans<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>New Test:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The standard \u201c<strong>Methods of Tests for Animal Feeds and Feeding Stuffs, Part 3: Microbiological Methods<\/strong>\u201d have been approved by the <strong>Food and Agriculture Division Council<\/strong>.\n<ul>\n<li>The council comes under the <strong>Union Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The new methods incorporated in this standard are based on <strong>Polymerase Chain Reaction<\/strong> (PCR), which are not only <strong>very precise<\/strong> and <strong>sensitive <\/strong>but <strong>also preclude the use of guinea pigs for laboratory testing<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>This move will <strong>spare countless guinea pigs painful and terrifying deaths<\/strong> caused by being injected with pathogens.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<table border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"width:735px\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"background-color:#d9d9d9; width:6.5in\">\n<p><strong>Bureau of Indian Standards<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is the <strong>national standard body<\/strong> of India established under the<strong> Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) Act, 2016<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Aims:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Development of the activities of standardization.<\/li>\n<li>Marking and quality certification of goods and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Significance:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It has been <strong>providing traceability and tangibility benefits<\/strong> to the national economy in a number of ways (providing safe reliable quality goods; minimizing health hazards to consumers; promoting exports and imports substitute; control over proliferation of varieties etc.) through <strong>standardization, certification and testing.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Polymerase Chain Reaction<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>fast and inexpensive<\/strong> technique used to &#8220;<strong>amplify<\/strong>&#8221; (copy) small segments of DNA.<\/li>\n<li>Since significant amounts of a<strong> sample of DNA are necessary for molecular and genetic analyses<\/strong>, studies of isolated pieces of DNA are nearly impossible without PCR amplification.\n<ul>\n<li>The tiniest amounts of DNA that may be present in blood, hair or tissues can be copied using this technique so that there is enough for analysis.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>It was developed by <strong>Kary B. Mullis<\/strong>, who was awarded the <strong>Nobel Prize for Chemistry<\/strong> in <strong>1993<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Usage:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The amplified DNA produced by PCR can be used in many different <strong>laboratory procedures<\/strong>. For example, most mapping techniques in the <strong>Human Genome Project<\/strong> (HGP) relied on PCR.<\/li>\n<li>PCR is also <strong>valuable in a number of laboratory and clinical techniques<\/strong>, including DNA fingerprinting, detection of bacteria or viruses (particularly AIDS), and diagnosis of genetic disorders.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cfstatic.nextias.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/format=auto\/file_library\/mix_content\/324919950427625900_image.png\" style=\"height:704px; margin-left:150px; margin-right:150px; width:275px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/news\/wildlife-&#038;-biodiversity\/amp\/lethal-guinea-pig-test-scrapped-by-bureau-of-indian-standards-75367\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Source: DTE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In News: Recently, the Bureau of Indian Standards\u2019 (BIS) Animal Husbandry, Feeds and Equipment Subcommittee has replaced a test on guinea pigs used for detecting and identifying pathogenic organisms. Old Test: It involved injecting guinea pigs with a feed sample. If the bacterium Bacillus anthracis or its spores, that cause anthrax, were present, the animals [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13979,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/wp-images.nextias.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/format=auto\/ca\/uploads\/2023\/07\/5231253current-affairs.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}