Adulteration the Crime Against Society
Adulteration Crime Against Society Adulteration is the term used to describe deliberate contamination of food items diluting their purity. This is done in order to increase profitability or sometimes in order to meet the increased demand. Food items could be adulterated by using neutral or non-harmful additives, like mixing pure water in milk, but sometimes the nature of contaminant added is impure, unhygienic, harmful and detrimental to health of consumers like adding urea to milk. Through, adulteration in any form is not acceptable at all but, the latter needs to be identified and rooted out at a priority as it could lead to disastrous circumstances. Food adulteration has become the order of the day and, consumer education and awareness is the need of the hour, assert experts. A common mistake committed by most consumers is to blindly pick up any product witho...