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Food Safety Tips for Consumers

The document defines food adulteration as lowering the nutritive value of food by adding inferior substances for profit. It lists common food adulterants like iron fillings in tea, marble pieces in rice, and water in milk. The document then provides simple tests consumers can do to check for common adulterants, such as using a magnet to detect iron in tea or adding acid and sugar to detect vanaspathi (hydrogenated vegetable oil) in ghee. It concludes by urging consumers to be alert about food quality and raise awareness of food adulteration.

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Food Safety Tips for Consumers

The document defines food adulteration as lowering the nutritive value of food by adding inferior substances for profit. It lists common food adulterants like iron fillings in tea, marble pieces in rice, and water in milk. The document then provides simple tests consumers can do to check for common adulterants, such as using a magnet to detect iron in tea or adding acid and sugar to detect vanaspathi (hydrogenated vegetable oil) in ghee. It concludes by urging consumers to be alert about food quality and raise awareness of food adulteration.

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FOOD ADULTERATION

&
ITS PREVENTION
DEFINATION

THE PROCESS OF LOWERING THE NUTRITIVE VALUE OF FOOD AND ADDING


INFERIOR SUBSTANCES TO EARN MORE PROFIT IS CALLED FOOD ADULTERATION
SOME OF THE FOOD ADULTERANTS

FOOD ADULTERANTS
1.TEA IRON FILLINGS
2.RICE MARBLE PIECES
3.SALT SAND & GRIT
4.MILK WATER
5.MAIDA TALCUM POWDER
6.GHEE VANASPATHI
7.SWEETS COLOURS
PREVENTION

TEA POWDER

PLACE A STRONG MAGNET ON A PAPER AND ADD TEA POWDER ON IT.IF


SOME OF THEM ATTRACTS THE MAGNET , THEN WE ARE SURE THAT THERE
ARE IRON FILLINGS IN THE TEA POWDER…

RICE

TAKE SOME WATER IN A BEAKER AND ADD RICE IN IT AND IF THE RICE GOES TO THE
BOTTOM FASTLY THEN WE CAN ASSURE THAT MARBLE PIECES ARE PRESENT IN IT….
GHEE

ADD A TEASPOON FULL OF GHEE IN A TESTTUBE AND ADD HYDROCHLORIC ACID &
PINCH OF SUGAR IN IT .STIR IT WELL AND IF CRIMSON RED COLOUR APPEARS THEN
WE CAN SAY THAT VANASPATHI IS PRESENT IN GHEE…

MILK

ADD A FEW DROPS OF MILK ON A SLANTING GLASS PLATE .IF WHITE TRIAL IS LEFT
BEHIND THEN IT IS PURE MILK & IF NOT THEN WATER IS MIXED IN IT…..
SO THE COSTOMERS SHOULD BE ALERT AND CHECK THE QUALITY OF FOOD

AND RAISE A VOICE TOWARDS FOOD ADULTERATION


A PRESENTATION
FROM

ABHISHEK GANDHI

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