Tests to detect food adulteration

Summary of DART (Detect Adulteration with Rapid Tests), tests how to detect food adulteration at home, adulteration of milk, oil, sugars, grain, spices, etc. food standards, PFA act.

1. Tests to detect Food adulteration Dr. Sunaina Kumthekar Junior Resident 3 Dept. of C ommunity Medicine GMC Aurangabad

2. Food adulteration Def - “Process of mixing, substitution, concealing the quality, putting up decomposed foods for sale, misbranding or giving false labels & addition of toxicants.” Traders – Greed for money Disadv : Paying more & at risk

3. Tests To Check Adulteration Of Food

4. Water IN MILK

5. Detergent IN MILK

6. Starch IN MILK

7. Mashed potato/ sweet potato & starch in ghee

8. Other oil in coconut Oil

9. Sugar in honey

10. Chalk powder in sugar

11. Kesari dal in pure dal

12. Added color in food grain

13. Rhodamine - b in ragi

14. Foreign resin in asafoetida

15. Papaya seeds in black paper

16. Artificial color in chilli powder

17. Grass seeds colored with charcoal dust

18. Argemone seeds in mustard seeds

19. Lead chromate in turmeric whole

20. Artificial color in turmeric

21. Saw dust in spices

22. Malachite green in green chilly

23. Rhodamine -b in sweet potato

24. Artificial color on green peas

25. White powder in iodized salt

26. Diff common & iodized salt

27. Clay in coffee powder

28. Exhausted tea in tea leaves

29. Wax polishing on apple

30. Food standards

31. Prevention of food adulteration (PFA act 1954) Objectives : Ensure, protect, prevent Rules by central body c/a “Central committee for food std.” Enforced by state Govt . State Govt. appoint- Food Analyst & Food Inspector Chain of 82 state food labs & 4 central labs

32. Punishment Import, manufacture, storage, sale or distribution of any food article which is adulterated by allowing its quality or purity to fall Giving a false warranty in writing in respect of any food article. Preventing a food inspector from taking a sample Injurious to health Likely to cause death or grievous bodily harm. Health education approach