Niranjan Gandhi, a graduate student at Utah State University, has come up with a speedier means of detecting food poisoning.

Gandhi, of Mahemdavad, India, can get results in less than one hour by producing his own serum.

Under federal Food and Drug Administration standard procedures, it can take three days to determine if a suspected food is poisonous.

A doctoral candidate at the university, Gandhi says that a major problem in reporting staphyloccus or enterotoxins responsible for about a fourth of an reported food poisoning has been delay in detecting the presence of the poison.

The standard tests, developed by FDA microbiologists, require quantities of anti-enterotoxin which is relatively hard to obtain Their serum is produced in only a few laboratories.

Gandhi, using a laboratory technique developed in the 1930's produces his own serum.

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