Food Adulteration Conclusion

Originally the milk is produced from the cow’s milk, pure milk will more concentrated and pure white in color compared with the adulterant milk. This is because the adulterated milk found that the milk is diluting with water. After they dilute the milk with water of course it will affect the creaminess and color, so to retain adulterated milk have same white color as original milk, they added some coloring matter. For examples, they had found 88% of annatto, 10% of aniline orange and 2% of caramel. Annatto gives the adulterated milk looks creamy and concentrated after they diluted with water. The caramel is added a little bit owing to its own color contains of too much of brown and too little of yellow composition inside itself. If added in

Adulterated food is impure, unsafe and not wholesome because the natural composition and quality of food is affected. Although the majority of adulterated foods do not pose a public health risk, there are some cases around the world have resulted in actual public health risks. Milk is one of the adulterated foods. Previously, a glass of milk a day is healthy for overall health but many people are not aware that they are having adulterated milk. Based on the results of survey done by Food Safety and Standard Authority of India (FSSAI), they found that most of Indians are consuming detergents, urea, and other contaminants through milk. The other survey conducted by The National Survey on Milk Adulteration 2011 found that the staff did not cleaned the operations in proper way caused the detergents appear in liquid milk. Besides that, others adulterants like starch, salt, water and glucose were added in milk. These adulterants are used to increase the thickness and viscosity, dilute the milk, prevent curdling, and preserve it for longer period. A study shows that the consumption of adulterated milk is harmful to human health. The immediate effect of drinking adulterated milk with urea and formalin is gastroenteritis but the effects for long term will be more serious. Some of the adulterants will cause nausea, vomiting, food poisoning, irreversible damage to the organs, heart problems, kidney stones, cancer and even death. Children are more prone for such damages due to all the ingredients used for production of synthetic milk are harmful. For example, an estimated 300,000 Chinese children had fall sickened and six infants were death due to the melamine-contaminated in milk