Tribune News Service Phagwara January 9 A team of researchers from Lovely Professional University (LPU) has designed an innovative and cost-effective water bottle cap that will prevent tampering of both used and unused water and cold drink bottles. The cap works with minimum torque. Once the bottle is opened the gap between its cap and the neck ring widens ensuring they cannot be stuck together seamlessly using adhesives. Tampering of fluids especially water is a major health concern. While packaged water brands take utmost care to deliver hygienic water to consumers in many cases miscreants refill empty bottles and sell them as branded ones. This not only leads to health challenges for consumers but also ends up eroding consumer trust in the packaged water brand. The new packaging technique developed by the LPUs researchers can help counter this challenge effectively. The team has developed a prototype of the innovation and has also bagged a patent. The research team includes Dr Lovi Raj Gupta Executive Dean of Science and Technology Lovely Professional University Dr Tanay Pramanik Prashant Kumar and Rakesh Kamal. Dr Lovi Raj Gupta Executive Dean of Science and Technology said “Water bottle tampering is a common issue which has plagued mineral water and carbonated drinks industry for long. Not only does it affect the consumers monetarily it also puts their lives at risk. At the same time packaged bottling companies lose million due to such malpractices every year.

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