Food Adulteration Act

Food adulteration is a process of degrading the quality of food offered for sale by the addition or use of inferior quality substances or by extracting some valuable component of a food article. It is a common fraudulent practice adopted by sellers to earn extra profit. Some examples of food adulteration are addition of flavours and colours to wine and addition of water in milk.

Have you ever got attracted by the mouth-watering and luscious colours of sweets or ice creams? Or the spicy aroma and tastes of samosas or bread pakoras? Well, several of these colours and tastes could be the result of addition of food adulterants, which may not be very good for our health and life.