The Environmental Effects Of Pow's Milk

The environmental pollution has been a major area of concern worldwide. The increasing of concentration of toxicants like heavy metals in the environment is due to the industrial and agricultural process. As a result the amount of concentration of toxicants being taken up by plants or animals into their system and cause further distribution to the environment. For examples in the case of cow’s milk in liquid or powder form that is being consumed by humans, it will affect the human health due to the contamination of toxicant in the product. Milk can be contaminated with heavy metals through exposure of lactating cow to pollution or consumption of feeding stuffs and water with toxicants. Besides that, the manner of manufacturing dairy product

Powder is the important nutrient required for children besides they get the nutrient from breastfeeding milk. This is because milk powder contains the basic and additional requirement needed for children during their development years. Children are particularly vulnerable to environmental toxicants because of their possibly greater relative exposure and the effect on their growth and physiological development. This is because milk powder may be contaminated by heavy metals which can cause toxicity to the consumers (J.N Solidum, S.G. Burgos, Padilla, 2012). The concentration of lead in milk is a matter of special concern nowadays. This is because lead is a major dietary constituent for the infants and children’s but they are vulnerable to the effect of lead exposure due to absorb several times the percentages ingested compared to adults and may influences the development processes (Samara and Richard, 2009). Usually, essential elements are normally added to milk powder during manufacture and since their excess may play a role as a potential source of exposure, therefore it is necessary to monitor and control the level of the added element in consumed food especially in milk because they can significantly influence human health (Belete, Hussen & Rao, 2014). In addition, the

When the agriculture soils are polluted, these heavy metals are taken up by plants and consequently accumulate in the tissue (Zodape G.V., Dhawan V.L.,& Wagh R.R, 2012). When that animals graze on such contaminated plants and drinks from polluted water, these heavy metals accumulate in animals tissue (Yahaya et al.,2010). All living organism within a given ecosystem are variously contaminated along their cycles of food chain and due to this reason it will increase the pollution of heavy metals in environment. Therefore, the awareness must be created among the consumer in order to given rise of concern about the intake of harmful metals in human. (J.N Solidum, S.G. Burgos, Padilla,