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Understanding Food Adulteration Types

This document discusses food adulteration, including definitions, types, and examples. It defines adulteration as mixing inferior substances into food or drink, making it impure and unfit for consumption. There are laws in place in India and the US to prohibit adulterated foods. Common adulterants include things like sand, chalk powder, artificial colors, and heavy metals from packaging or industrial waste. Several common foods prone to adulteration are described like milk, spices, oils, and more. Tests are also outlined to detect certain accidental and intentional adulterants in different foods.

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Understanding Food Adulteration Types

This document discusses food adulteration, including definitions, types, and examples. It defines adulteration as mixing inferior substances into food or drink, making it impure and unfit for consumption. There are laws in place in India and the US to prohibit adulterated foods. Common adulterants include things like sand, chalk powder, artificial colors, and heavy metals from packaging or industrial waste. Several common foods prone to adulteration are described like milk, spices, oils, and more. Tests are also outlined to detect certain accidental and intentional adulterants in different foods.

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Food Adulteration

Dr. Namita Ashish Singh


Assistant Professor
Department of Microbiology,
MLSU, Udaipur
Introduction
Adulteration usually refers to mixing other substance of an inferior or harmful
quality with food or drink. As a result of adulteration, food or drink becomes
impure and unfit for human consumption. "Adulteration" means that a food
product fails to meet federal or state standards.

The federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) bans transportation of


adulterated foods, drugs, and cosmetics as per act.

PFA-Prevention of Food Adulteration-1954


This act prohibits manufacture , sales and distributions adulterated food as
well as food contaminated with microbes, toxicants. There are standards
specified for pasteurized milk, milk powder ,infant milk food etc.

FSSAI
A new national regulatory body, the Food Safety and Standards Authority of
India (FSSAI), has been established in 2011 to develop science based
standards for food and to regulate as well as monitor the manufacture,
processing, storage, distribution, sale and import of food to ensure the
availability of safe food for human consumption.
Different Types of Food Adulteration
 Intentional: Sand, marble chips, stones, mud, other filth,
talc, chalk powder, water, mineral oil
 Incidental: Pesticide residues tin from can, droppings of
rodents, larvae in foods.
 Metallic contamination: Arsenic from pesticides, lead from
water, mercury from effluent, from chemical industries, tins
from cans.
 Packaging Hazards: Polyethylene, polyvinyl chloride and
allied compounds are used to produce flexible packaging
material.
Some Adulterated Foods in market
Milk Adulteration Test
Food - Adulterant Detection
Intentional
Coffee Chicory seeds , Sprinkle coffee powder on water ,it will float while
Tamarind seed chicory will settle down in few sec
powder

Tea Colored leaves Rub leaves on white paper , artificial color comes out.
Iron fillings Sprinkle tea on wet filter ,red spots will be seen.
Used tea
Red chilly Radamine 2 gm in 5 ml acetone , red color will be seen.
powder Brick pd It settles faster in water than chilli powder
Turmeric Metanil yellow Few drops of HCL –appears violet
powder
Dal Metanil yellow Luke warm water add pulses and drop of HCL, pink
color indicates presence of Metanil
Pure Ghee Vanaspathi 1 tsp melted ghee to conc HCL and add pinch of cane
sugar-shake well and keep for 5mins,crimson color in
lower layer is seen
Black pepper Papaya seeds Float in alcohol, pepper will sink and papaya will float
IIA –Incidental Intentional Food involved Bad effects
Adulteration

Arsenic Fruits , drinking water Dizziness,chills,cramps ,

Cadmium Fruit juice and soft drinks Liver, kidney damage,


multiple facture, cancer

Cobalt Water , beer Cardiac failure

Copper Acid foods Vomiting,diarrhoea

Lead Processed food, water Brain damage, blindness

Mercury Fish Brain damage, blindness

Pesticides All types of food Damage to liver ,kidney,


brain and nerves leading to
death.
Antibiotics Meat Hardening of arteries , heart
disease
Thank you

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