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    Food adulteration involves adding non-food items to food to increase quantity for profit, which can harm health. Common adulterants include water in milk, chalk in paneer, and chemicals to prolong milk's shelf life or ripen fruits. Adulteration is done to increase profits but removes nutrients and can cause diseases over time. The government needs stricter regulations and enforcement to protect people from unsafe adulterated food.

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    Food adulteration involves adding non-food items to food to increase quantity for profit, which can harm health. Common adulterants include water in milk, chalk in paneer, and chemicals to prolong milk's shelf life or ripen fruits. Adulteration is done to increase profits but removes nutrients and can cause diseases over time. The government needs stricter regulations and enforcement to protect people from unsafe adulterated food.

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    Food adulteration involves adding non-food items to food to increase quantity for profit, which can harm health. Common adulterants include water in milk, chalk in paneer, and chemicals to prolong milk's shelf life or ripen fruits. Adulteration is done to increase profits but removes nutrients and can cause diseases over time. The government needs stricter regulations and enforcement to protect people from unsafe adulterated food.

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    FOOD ADULTERATION

    Definition
    • "Adulteration" is a legal term meaning that a
    food product fails to meet federal or state
    standards. Adulteration is an addition of a non
    food item to increase the quantity of the food
    item in raw form or prepared form, which may
    result in the loss of actual quality of food item.
    • It bears or contains any "poisonous or dangerous
    substance" which may render it injurious to health.
    • It bears or contains a pesticide chemical residue that
    is unsafe.
    • It is, or it bears or contains, an unsafe colour
    additive.
    • A valuable constituent has been omitted in whole or
    in part or replaced with another substance, damage
    or inferiority has been concealed in any manner
    REASON BEHIND FOOD ADULTERATION

    Food is adulterated to increase the quantity and make


    more profit. The food is sucked of its nutrients and the
    place where the food is grown is often contaminated. For
    example: Milk is mixed with water. Vanaspati is used as an
    adulterant for ghee. Ergot is used as an adulterant for
    cereals. Chalk-powder is used as an adulterant for flour.
    Chicory is used as an adulterant for coffee. Papaya seeds
    is used as an adulterant for pepper.Brick-powder is used
    as an adulterant for chilly-powder.tamarind seed powder
    is used as adulterant for coffee. wood powder is
    adulterated for turmeric and dhaniya powder.
    Some Adultered Foods in market
    • Turmeric, dals and pulses such as moong or
    channa:Here adulterant is Metanil Yellow and
    Kesari Dal (Added to enhance the yellow
    colour of a food substance).It's harmful effect
    is that it is highly carcinogenic and if
    consumed over a continuous period of time it
    can also cause stomach disorders.
    • Mustard seeds and mustard oil:Papaya seeds (used
    to add bulk)that the consumption of these could
    cause epidemic dropsy and severe glaucoma.
    Young children and senior citizens with poor
    immunity are more susceptible this.
    • Paneer, khoya, condensed milk and milk:Here
    adulterant is starch (used to give itthick, rich
    texture).It 's harmful effect is that it is unhygienic,
    unprocessed water and starch can cause stomach
    disorders. Starch greatly reduces the nutritional
    value of the ingredient.
    Use of hair bleach chemical to prolong life of milk to prolong life of
    Milk

    • Officials have discovered that to prolong life of milk and


    milk products, many dairy owners had been using a
    cocktail of chemicals whose consumption can damage
    kidney and liver.Food and drug officials detected
    Hydrogen peroxide (a common paper and hair bleaching
    agent), potassium hydroxide (used in soap preparation)
    and hypo (a bleaching agent) in milk at some dairies
    during raids in Madhya Pradesh. The 'synthetic' milk, a
    proven health hazard, is a mixture of washing powder
    used for woolens, vegetable oil, water, glucose powder
    and a chemical substance called RM.
    Spurious sweets and milk products during festive season

    • Some of the adulterants that are used in milk are water, chalk, urea,
    caustic soda and skimmed milk, while Khoya is adulterated with
    paper, refined oil and skimmed milk powder. Similarly, potato and
    Vanaspati have been found to contaminate Ghee, while the silver
    topping that is found on top of most mithais is often aluminium.
    Similarly, the Saffron thread that decorates mithai is often just dried
    and coloured corn hair. Combine all this together and you have the
    recipe for one big, bad stomach ache, if not worse!
    • To check if milk is adulterated, put a few drops on a smooth plate and
    tilt it. If it is pure, the milk will run slowly and leave a white trail
    behind it. Further, you may even add a few drops of iodine to a small
    sample and if it turns blue, that means it has been adulterated.
    Vegetable and fruits Adulteration

    • Vegetables which are the main part of


    everybody meals rich or poor, president or a
    common man. This segment is very much
    targeted for adulteration and in every phase
    from farms till it reaches market for selling
    adulteration is practiced. Farmer injects
    growth hormones to get more produce in
    short time.
    • Most of the vegetables we buy from the
    market are treated with a heavy dose of
    pesticides. Some have even been dipped in
    harmful chemical solutions to make them look
    fresh and attractive. Many vegetables are
    given a dose of artificial colour to suit your
    eyes.
    • Banana is the most effected fruit in India
    today it has been ripened with chemicals and
    these chemicals are harmful for humans
    especially children. 90 percent of banana
    available today is adulterated.
    • The juicy mango is no longer your favourite fruit.
    It has been ripened with calcium carbide, the
    same chemical that is used in making crackers and
    cheap bombs. Calcium carbide contains traces of
    arsenic and phosphorous, and releases acetylene
    gas, which hastens the ripening of fruits. The fruit
    is then dipped in a solution of a growth hormone,
    which should not be used in food products and
    need to be kept out of reach of children.
    CONCLUSION
    • Adulteration of food creates so many
    problems to the human being so it creates
    major diseases and spoils human health . In
    nutshell I can said that Govt, come forward
    and take necessary steps to stop this
    Manipulation in the food .

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