UMM Student Wins National Competition for Food Detection Tool Prototype

Author : Humas | Monday, October 09, 2023 08:54 WIB

Aulya Mauizzati Mahasiswa Program Studi Akuntasi (Foto : Istimewa)

Numerous innovations and breakthroughs have been produced by the academic community of Universitas Muhammadiyah Malang (UMM). One of them was initiated by Aulya Mauizzati, a student of the UMM Accounting Study Program class of 2021. She and four other group members made a portable prototype tool for securing processed food products called Portable Tool-Anti Food Fraud. This tool also successfully led them to win third place in the Law, Social and Economic Sectors at the Mandalika Essay Competition 3 at Gunung Rinjani University, NTB.

Aulya, her surname, explained that this idea arose from the many cases of food product counterfeiting in Indonesia. One of them is the use of tainted chicken as the basic ingredient for meatballs in Bantul Regency, Yogyakarta in 2022. This is coupled with the limited human senses in detecting the falsification of food products.

"The falsification in question is the use of ingredients that are not in accordance with what is conveyed to consumers. For example, a product that is supposed to use chicken meat turns out to be made from rat meat. This tool is expected to detect dangerous ingredients that should not be in food," added Aulya.

The way this tool works is by inserting food samples into the space provided. Furthermore, on the touchscreen screen, 3 main menus or icons will be displayed, namely database, measure, and settings. In the database, there are four derivative menus, such as input which contains real data from the samples examined and reference data regarding the general characteristics of food falsification that have occurred in Indonesia.

"Then, there is also data storage, which is used to store the original data from previously examined samples along with reference data. There is also a comparison menu, where the comparison process will be carried out from the database and previously stored reference data. Finally, there is the results and report menu, which will output the results of the previous comparison," she added.

In the measure menu, there are also four child menus. First, a counterfeiting measurement is performed to determine the level of food counterfeiting found. Second, the quality of the results is measured to determine the accuracy of the food counterfeiting detection results. Third, results reporting showcases the performance of this portable detector.

Fourth, a notification includes a level of counterfeiting notification. Starting with low, medium, or high, the colors are red for high, yellow for medium, and green for low.

"The last menu is settings. In this menu, there are 3 components, like scanning tool settings to set the system you want to use to detect infrared, portable ultraviolet, and visible light. Then there are database settings to change or edit the data contained in the database," he explained.

Then, the last one is security and settings to protect access and control user permissions for this tool. So that this tool cannot be used or misused by irresponsible people. Because, the form is only a prototype, they have just campaigned for the tool.

Hopefully, it can be realized as a form of anticipation in sustainable food counterfeiting. In its development, Aulya is not alone. She was accompanied by Uni Fitratunnisa, Mohammad Mirzan Abdillah, Ivanya Anindhi and Aida Aulia. (*nov/wil/fajr)

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