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Mind map about food adulteration

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What is food adulteration?

Food adulteration is an act of adding or mixing of poor quality, inferior, harmful, substandard, useless or unnecessary substances and chemicals to food by incidental or intentional means.

Causes of Food Adulteration

● Profit motive of traders: Done as a part of the business

strategy

● Food insecurity: To increase the quantity of food production and sales.

● Increased Urbanization: To make maximum profit from food items by fewer investments.

● High population demands Increased food demand of the population and its changing trends.

● Lack of awareness of the general public: Lack of consciousness of proper food consumption.

● Lack of effective food laws

● Lack of government initiatives

Food adulteration in India: Statistics

● Twenty-six thousand food samples were found adulterated or misbranded in 2018-19 in India: GOI Report.

● In its 2020 annual report, Food Safety and Standards Authority of India revealed the doubling of adulteration cases in the last eight years.

● According to the report, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, and Tamil Nadu had the highest percentage (45%) of adulterated samples.