Adulteration of Food Items During Festivals
The two months of September and October are the festival months of India as in these two months every year big festivals like Durga Puja, Dusshera, and Diwali are celebrated. And one thing which can't be neglected during these festivals is the sweets which we call 'Mithai' in Hindi. Without tasting these sweets one doesn't enjoy the festivals fully, lol. So these two months are the bangers for such sweets shop and they sell and make business crazy in these two months possibly bigger profit than their yearly one.
And so the practice of adulteration is common during this time by even well-known shops.
Adulteration means adding impurities or cheating materials to make the food item tasty and similar to the original one at a low cost by using chemicals or by using different cheap materials.
Every year numerous shops are caught doing this cheap inhumane activity and risking the lives of healthy people.
Sleeping Officials
Diwali will be celebrated on the 23rd and 24th of October in certain parts of India. This is a beautiful festival of light in which, the satellite view of India these days at night is incredible. In my city, we have 300+ such sweets shops including restaurants and so far they were only able to check 6 and here also they picked the small shops, not the big ones, hypocrisy. Every shop was found using adulteration methods to create sweets and the paneer they were using was also made with cheap and non-original materials as soon as they poured Sodium chloride (NaCl) in it, it turned black showing its impure. The good original turns yellow I think. And in recent 5 years, only 7 shops have been fined while hundreds of cases are still running in courts, lol such a flawed judiciary.
Seriousness And Shame
The judiciary needs to be strict, I felt very sad knowing about it how people can go to such a low level just to make a bigger profit by risking the life of their customers, their lifelong business makers. The problem is not only with politicians or laws, the major problem lies with the people around us. They can be honest and provide original healthy sweets but they choose to earn an extra penny taking corrupt route.
I already have talked about the judiciary in my recent posts a lot and their rules are just to save the culprits. This is a crime and unless a serious attitude is taken against them, it will continue.
Don't Worry
Not all shop owners do this but the majority of them do, so it's best to buy sweets from reputed places or even the local ones, as getting those harmful materials to perform adulteration is not easy for common people. But still, a check to every shop by officials would have been a very good approach.
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Final Thoughts
I think most developing countries have these corrupt people who perform adulteration. Does this happen in your place also?
And let me mention one more thing this not only happens with sweets but with every food item available in the market like fast foods, traditional foods, etc.
The best alternative is to learn to make the sweets by yourself, who knows you will be making a tastier variant, be confident lol.
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Adulteration happens in every part of the world. It happens here in my country too and it's so sad that the officials get bribed by these people instead of exposing the evil act