What is incidental adulteration?
Incidental adulteration occurs when foreign substances are added to a food as a result of ignorance, negligence, or improper facilities. Intentional adulteration involves the deliberate addition of inferior materials to a food to heighten appearance qualities and to gain greater profits.
What are the two types of adulteration?
TYPES OF FOOD ADULTERATION:
- Intentional adulteration: The adulterants are added as a deliberate act with intention to increase profit.
- Incidental Adulteration: Adulterants are found in food due to negligence, ignorance or lack of proper facilities.
What are the examples of adulteration?
Here is a list of most common adulterants in India:
- Milk. A 2012 study conducted by the FSSAI across 33 states found that milk in India was adulterated with diluted water, detergent, fat and even urea.
- Tea/Coffee.
- Wheat and other food grains.
- Vegetables.
- Sweets.
- Honey.
- Dal.
- Spices.
What are the harmful effects of food adulteration?
Effects Of Food Adulteration Some of the adulterants are highly toxic for the body leading to heart failure, liver disorders, kidney disorders & many more. Adulteration also affects the quality of the product leading hindrance to the nutritive value of the product thus leading to nutritive deficiency in our body.
What are examples of incidental adulteration?
Incidental adulteration
| Name of the food article | Adulterant |
|---|---|
| Coriander powder | Common salt |
| Cumin seeds | Grass seeds coloured with charcoal dust |
| Dals | Kesari dal Clay stones, gravels lead, chromate, metanil yellow |
| Edible oils | Argemone oil Mineral oil Castor oil |
Why is milk adulterated?
The study found that due to lack of hygiene and sanitation in milk handling and packaging, detergents (used during cleaning operations) are not washed properly and find their way into the milk. Other contaminants like urea, starch, glucose, formalin along with detergent are used as adulterants.
What are two harmful effects of food adulteration?
Leads to various diseases: Due to the consumption of adulterated food, we can get various chronic diseases like Liver Disorder, Diarrhoea, Stomach Disorder, Lahyrism Cancer, Vomiting, Dysentery, Cancer, Joint Pain, Heart Diseases, Food Poisoning etc.
Is adulteration good or bad?
Adulteration of foods can either be intentional, unintentional or natural. Food adulteration can have a range of harmful effects on health. It can not only lead to toxicity in the body but also can lead the body to paralysis or eventually death. Thus, it becomes very important to detect these adulterants.