Food
adulteration is the process of mixing other non nutritious materials,
decomposed foods, mislabeling which decreases the quality of the food products
and adversely affects the human health. It is popular all over the world and
practices may vary from one country to another country. Though it is not a
healthy practice, many industries have less quality food productions in order
to earn more profits. It may be both intentional and accidental.
In many countries, there is the
trend of mislabeling of the packed foods which have less in quality. The consumers
have to be cheated in great number and many times in life by paying lots of
money for quality less foods. Dusts, sand, tiny stones, straw and other raw
material are used to earn profit which degrades the quality of food. Tiny dust
of bricks are mostly used in chili powder, water in milk where fats are already
taken out, hydrogenated vegetable oil added with animal fats, small stones in
pulses, rice and black pepper is mixed with papaya seeds. Some adulterants like
stones, dried straw pieces and iron pieces can be visually removed but non visual
material like dusts, brick powder are difficult to remove. These all are the cheating
process for the costumers. The packed and cooked foods are prepared under
unhygienic and unsanitary places like near toilet and bathrooms in which foods
are contaminated by flies, bacteria and other harmful insects. It brings the
health problems like insomnia, vomiting, dizziness, less appetite, poor vision,
stomach disorder, liver problem, dysentery, abortion, anemia, cancer, jaundice,
paralysis and other neurological health problems where all the people need to
be healthy. With increase in rapid population growth, food adulteration process
is also increasing in rapid pace because of high demand of the food. In most of
the cases, wild mushrooms and some types of sea fishes are very poisonous which
may cause death are also being sold in the market. So, consumers themselves
should be cleaver and have to notice and read correctly before purchasing any
food items. They should check properly as the containers packed foods are
rusted or not. Meat and milk are also sold which are from diseased and dead
animals. In such cases, they should not buy. Some people preserve their
agricultural productions like maize, wheat by the use of chemicals like
pesticides to earn money. This practice is not good and it may lead to death as
it is highly poisonous to consume.
Food adulteration as a social
problem is increasing day by day in the world. Though there have been made
strict rules and law by different global organizations, it have not been
properly implemented in a systematic way. The appropriate way of inspections in
food quality in food industries should be organized which helps to minimize the
food adulteration process. Food consumers should be given information about the
food adulteration and to be aware as they have consumer rights to complain and
judge. There should be made the appropriate provision of license for foods
sale. So, human health problem can also be minimized slowly.
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