Food Adulteration and ITS Problems (Intentional, Accidental and Natural Food Adulteration)

Our land, the earth is blessed with various good foods. But most of the businessmen are normally adulterating the food. So, this is the major health critics for our people. This whole paper contains the matters regarding food adulteration and its problems with specific reference to intentional, accidental and natural food adulteration. Foods which are more likely to get adulterated are Olive oil, milk, honey, saffron, Orange juice, coffee and apple juice. The adulterated food bears or contains any “poisonous or deleterious substance” which may render it injurious to health. Food can be adulterated intentionally and accidentally. Unintentional adulteration is the result of ignorance or the lack of facilities to maintain food quality. So, the main thing is to screen before what we eat. Food colours, chemicals and additives often creep up not just in our local produce, but even in packaged products. Many legal enforcements are also taken by government to prevent food adulteration. In India, adulteration and contamination are encountered in food consumed at the household level, in the food service establishments and in business firms, and also when sold as street foods. Contamination of various mytotoxins, metals and pesticides in daily foods and milk has been found highly toxic and 70% of deaths are food-borne origin. Recently, during Deepawali festivals there was no dearth of news reports on the television and local newspapers on how the adulteration is being done by businessmen. Usage of new technologies like Genetically Managed, Nano-tech foods, functional foods are very much profitable and helpful for our food processing and food production. But, there includes various issues for our health also. So, while producing foods these should be kept in mind by the producers to enforce the health of the human beings.