Essay On ADULTERATION
Purpose behind Adulteration and its Nature
Adulteration is done by anti-social persons who want to make easy money. They mix low quality, cheap, non-edible substances with food and make it adulterated. The cheap, low quality and generally non-edible substances are purposely mixed with food items to earn profit, are called ADULTERANTS.
Some Toxic and harmful Adulterants
Food adulteration is a serious crime which is punishable under the law. Consumption of adulterated food can cause serious disorders such as diarrhoea, asthma, ulcers, food poisoning, cancer and may even result in death. Consumption of Haldi adulterated with lead chromate, may lead to serious mental disorders, especially in children. It can cause anaemia and paralysis. Dhania powder is adulterated by adding powdered cow-dung or horse-dung to it. Milk is adulterated with water and chemical mixture of urea etc., rice with stones and cooking oil with inferior quality oils. Most of the adulterants are very harmful and toxic.
Disastrous Results of Adulterated Mustard oil
More than 54 people had died in Delhi due to mustard oil and several hundreds were hospitalised. Several days after this tragedy Delhi Government and other states banned the sale of mustard oil. This adulteration caused swelling of legs, loss of eye-sight, damage to liver, heart and kidneys resulting in different types of death. Greed and profit motive encourages the businessman for adulteration because the culprits responsible for adulteration are not punished seriously to that level which make them human killer.
Negligence of P.F.A. Department
The investigation by the crime branch indicates that if P.F.A. (Prevention of Food Adulteration) department have been more alert and dutiful, this tragedy would have been adverted. The P.F.A. had received complaints but it simply sat over the complaints. It did not take any action. In order to prevent the adulteration of food-the Government has laid down certain rules as the prevention of Food Adulteration Acts and Rules and Food Products Orders, to keep a check on the quality of various food products manufactured.
Types of Standard Marks
The Bureau of Indian standards inspects the various food products manufactured. If the products have the standard quality needed, the certificate is issued. The various certificates of reliability are the F.P.O. (Food Products Order) mark, the I.S.I. (Indian Standard Institution) mark and the AGMARK (Agriculture Marketing).
Legal Punishment to Manufacturers and Dealers wanted
In order to test the purity of the various food items, most of the big cities have food testing laboratories. To Keep a check, the officials of the health department take samples of common food products from different shops and send them to the food laboratories for analysis. In case an adulterated food is detected, the manufacturer and the shop-keeper who is selling such a product, is prosecuted and punished according to the law.
All-round Adulteration
There is hardly any item in the Indian market, which is not adulterated. Research has shown that even fruits, vegetables and cereals, sold in the market, are said to contain high levels of toxic metals like lead, nickel, cadmium, and chromium. Adulteration spares nothing when a spirit of becoming quickly rich, over-rules the moral ground. Even the simple water is not spared. Under the well known brand name-mineral water is reused filling with tube well water and is sold to very thirsty train passengers.
Adulterated Mineral Oil
Adulteration like corruption is deep-rooted. It is not limited to mustard oil in Delhi. A flourishing racket of petrol, diesel and mobile oil adulteration is going on in the capital (Delhi). Some solvent used for painting purpose are brought to petrol pump and they are mixed with petrol in right proportion so that the content looks and smells exactly like petrol. A very common solvent used for this purpose and found easily in the market is light motor oil (LTO).
Slackness in Enforcement of Laws
Adulteration is a fatal crime against society. We have a law against adulteration but like other social laws, it is rarely enforced. The responsible officers and politicians do not take any action against social fatal evil until it takes the form of a big tragedy and becomes the heading of newspapers. Same is the case with Adulteration. In short, government wakes up only when Adulteration results in fatal tragedy. “We have no business to make laws when we have no intention to enforce them-the prevention of Food Adulteration Act and others.”
Vocabulary
Adulteration- admixture, Adulterants- person who adulterate, Prevention- act of preventing, प्रतिबन्ध, रुकावट। Consumption- act of using up, उपभोग।
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