COMMUNITY NUTRITION 3 (1+2)

Lesson 15 : Food Adulteration

Definition

According to prevention of Food Adulteration Act, food Adulteration includes

1. Intentional addition, substitution or abstraction or substances which adversely affect the purity and quality of foods.
2. Incidental contamination of foods with deleterious substances such as toxins and insecticides due to ignorance, negligence or lack of proper storage facilities.
3. Contamination of the food with harmful insects, micro organism like bacteria, fungus, moulds etc during production, storage and handling.

Any material which is employed for the purpose of adulteration is defined as adulterant.