Food Adulteration : In our daily life there are so many unhygienic and contaminated things for our health. Most of our things our contaminated. Even the food‚ which we eat‚ is adulterated. Now a question arises that what is adulteration? The answer is that the deliberate contamination of food material with low quality‚ cheap and non-edible or toxic substances is called food adulteration. The substance‚ which lowers or degrades the quality of food material‚ is called an adulterant. Adulteration brings
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Effect of food adulteration on the health of people Abstract of the report: Introduction to Food Adulteration: Adulteration – is a term legally used to define any kind of food product that does not meet the standards set by the centre or the state. The Prevention of Food Adulteration Act states that any substance that may be used for adulteration can be called as an adulterant. • Adulteration could mean any of the below: • Substitution with a cheaper or inferior quality substance – in part
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the basis of following Issues? A) Adulterated food: a serious public health problem in Bangladesh Adulteration of food with toxic chemicals harmful to health has reached an epidemic proportion in Bangladesh. The newspapers have dubbed it as the ‘silent killer’. It is very difficult to find a sector of food industry which is free of adulteration. From raw vegetable and fruits to milk and milk products to fish‚ meat and processed food–every food item is contaminated. Almost every day in the news
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FOOD adulteration is the process of adding chemical substances with foods‚ which should not be contained within food and beverages. Chemical substances or simply adulterants may be internationally added to substances to reduce manufacturing costs‚ or for some deceptive or malicious purpose. When profit in business is more important than morality‚ then it is possible to add the poisoning contents to the foods and beverages. A limited number of people die without foods but large population have been
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6 * THEORY 1. What is food adulteration? 7 2. Ugly face of adulteration 8 3. Why food adulteration? 8 4. How prevalent is food adulteration? 9 5. Food standards 11 6. How to prevent food adulteration? 12 * LAB REPORT 1. Experiment 14 2. Result 15 * CONCLUSION 16 * BIBLIOGRAPHY 17 INTRODUCTION A dulteration in food is normally present in its most crude
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A HEALTHY mind dwells in a healthy body. People have become health conscious and nowadays articles and programmes related with health awareness have been attracting millions of household. Hectic schedule‚ changing food habits and lack of proper timetable in daily routine have only made things complexed for each individual. The health problems further get aggravated for an individual when he/she consumes adulterated items‚ which adversely affect vital biological systems of human body which include
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WHAT IS FOOD? * Food is any substance that can be consumed‚ including liquid drinks. Food is the main source of energy and of nutrition for animals‚ and is usually of animal or plant origin. WHAT IS ADULTERATION? * “Adulteration” according to Chambers 21st Century Dictionary (1996) means "debasing something or rendering it impure by mixing it with something inferior or harmful." WHAT IS FOOD ADULTERATION? * Food adulteration is the act of adding or mixing something
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phenomenon of adulteration of food. It has engulfed the developing and the underdeveloped countries for the past decade. There are 400 million children in India. Malnutrition‚ diseases like polio and even prejudice continue to threaten their healthy existence. When we see such young children and adults suffering from various diseases due to the adulteration of food‚ we realize that it become a big problem now. Food adulteration can be defined as the intentional debasing of the quality of food offered
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2010] ILI Law Review 163 LAWS ON FOOD ADULTERATION: A CRITICAL STUDY WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE FOOD SAFETY AND STANDARDS ACT‚ 2006.1 I. Introduction INDIA HAS been called the land of Annapurna. Food and water are not only the elixir of life‚ but they are worshipped as gods. In spite of this fact‚ the evil of food adulteration is not only present in the society to a great extent‚ but its history can be traced back to the times of Kautilya.2 Recently‚ during Deepawali festivities
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Food adulteration is the act of intentionally debasing the quality of food offered for sale either by the admixture or substitution of inferior substances or by the removal of some valuable ingredient. Food is declared adulterated if: • a substance is added which depreciates or injuriously affects it • cheaper or inferior substances are substituted wholly or in part • any valuable or necessary constituent has been wholly or in part abstracted • it is an imitation • it is coloured
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