Food adulteration means polluting food items through an artifical means for personal gain. Food adulteration has become a serious problem in our country. Now a days foods are often adulteration to keep them fresh or to make them tasty. In hotels and restaurant, stale and rotten goods are often mixed with fresh food and served to the customers. Traders use chemicals and preservatives in order to make fish and vegetables look fresh and thus fish and vegetables get adulteration. Toxic substences are also used in bakery and confectionary products. Junk food contains pernicshopkeepers ious chemicals and poses a menace to our health. Dishonest and avaricious businessmen and shopkeeper adulterate all kinds of foods for quick profit disregarding the safety of the consumers. Eating adulterated foods causes many fatal diseases. So the people who are involved in food adulteration should be identified and punished. Public awareness must be created against this destructive food adulteration.So it is important that the relevant departments of the government remain vigilant against food adulteration.
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