Food adulterants

Food adulterants

                     Since food, like air and shelter, is an essential requirement of our life, any attempt to purposely degrade its quality is punishable under the law. Still there are some antisocial persons who adulterate food to make easy money.

              When the quality of food, is lowered or affected either by addition of other inferior or injurious substances that causes damage to health.

                A good example of this is the addition of water into milk or removal of fat from milk.

                 Adulterants are the substances mixed with original food. These cause much danger to our body health as well as our society. The nutritional value of food is lost.