Project. 1 part
Topic :to control milk adulteration
My experiences with solving milk adulteration issue
Problem statement :Health-related issue; milk adulteration
Milk Adulteration is also called milk Fraud. It is illegal that people are providing with unhealthy foodstuff for which they are paying Milk adulteration is the major cause of chronic health diseases. People are using this adulterated milk and milk products frequently due to lack of awareness. Growing population and global demand for milk driving increase in the incidence of milk fraud.
Milk Adulterants
A chemical substance that should not be contained in other substances like beverages, milk due to legal or some other reasons.
Some of the major adulterants in milk having serious adverse health effects are urea, formalin, detergents boric acid, caustic soda, benzoic acid, salicylic acid, hydrogen peroxide, sugar, and melanin.
Urea. Commercial urea is added to milk to increase Non-protein nitrogen.
Melamine. Melamine is added to increase protein content falsely.
Ammonium sulfate. Is added to increase the lactometer reading by maintaining the density of diluted milk.
Formalin, Benzoic Acid, and Hydrogen peroxide. Acts as a preservative and increases the shelf life of the milk. Economically motivated adulteration Addition of whey and watering which are known as economically motivated adulteration which is not very toxic.
Side effects of adulteration
Health-related problems
Some adulterants are highly toxic causing serious adverse health effects like heart failure, liver and kidney disorder, develop cancer, diarrhea, and stomach-related complications.
Explanation
Milk adulteration is the major cause of health-related problems. Milk is an inseparable part of our food. We are using milk on daily basis. Children, adults, old aged people all are affected by this problem. They can get chronic health diseases which is the leading cause of death.
Milk powder vs tea Whitener: milk powder is a good option for us because it’s only a dry form of milk no additional sugar, chemical, preservatives or plant fiber is added.
How this problem will be solved
By looking at this statement from different perspectives the main reason that is motivating milk adulteration is unawareness. Consumers are unaware of the side effects of adulterated milk. They do not even know that the milk they are using is pure or adulterated. As a student of food science and technology, its my duty to spread awareness and solve this problem.
Most girls at our hostel being educated but unfortunately they don’t pay attention to look at the ingredient list. Where its written whitener clearly but still they are using it. Then what can we expect from illiterate people.
So We must have to spread awareness about the health adverse effects caused by adulterated milk.
1. will set a Facebook page and will arrange live videos, presentations on milk adulteration. And will explain its side effects in such an easy way to make sure that an illiterate person can get everything about adulteration.
1. To arrange an immediate inspections At small scales, because most people prefer to choose a secret place for such illegal activities.
2. To provide people with the opportunity that they can easily access the food authority to let them know as quickly as possible.
3. To conduct milk related seminars at different schools, collages universities for public awareness about adverse impacts of tea whitener and impure milk.
4. Vehicles bringing in food articles, including milk, be allowed entry only after ensuring that the contents contain no harmful elements
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5. Consumers have been advised to purchase milk of branded companies. Milk in plastic covers have no information of the branded firm, date and time of packaging should not be purchased.
6. Rapid, effective and inexpensive tests to detect several harmless and harmful adulterants should be worked out so that cases of adulterations are detected easily.
7. There is some easy taste that can be performed at home to check adulteration.
Health-related problems
Some adulterants are highly toxic causing serious adverse health effects like heart failure, liver and kidney disorder, develop cancer, diarrhea, and stomach-related complications.
Purpose of adulteration
Unfortunately, milk is being very easily adulterated throughout the world. Some reasons behind it include:
1. demand and supply gap, perishable nature of milk low purchasing capability of the customer
2. and lack of suitable detection tests
3. Practiced as a part of the business strategy
4. Lack of knowledge of proper food consumption
5. To make high profit with low investments
6. lack of proper monitoring and enforcement policies.
What will be the impact of letting this issue persist?
If we don’t take any action about this health-related issue. It will have the worst impact on human health.
- The people who are already engaged in this illegal activity will get the opportunity to boost their selling by investing in mass production.
- More people will adopt this illegal activities when they observe that there are no strict policies about it.
- Health-related problems will get to the peak like kidney failure, liver diet, diabetes.
- The death rate will be high.
My experience with chasing and solving this problem;
I learned and experienced many things by taking this step.
Before I was not able to solve even small problems as I was not aware of the tactics of design thinking. But after completing the online course on design thinking and applying all those steps to solving this problem.
It taught me everything that it doesn’t matter how complicated or tough the problem is it’s all about creativity and innovation.
I learned that How to solve any problem with available resources and how to manage them.
Benefits
The benefits of this experience are awesome, now I can take action about any problem that could be any social issue or small problems in my own life.
I learned how to interact with people and discuss a problem with them and to find out an effective solution for that.
