Adulteration-An Evil of Society (2014)
Introduction:
“Adulteration” according to Chambers 21st Century Dictionary (1996) means "debasing something or rendering it impure by mixing it with something inferior or harmful."
The toll of human life that adulteration takes is only next to war. The damage is not only immediate but far-reaching. It has a very bad effect on human mechanism. Vitality in man is lowered. Paralysis has become very common because of adulteration. Widespread blindness in the people of Pakistan owes much to this bad practice. Outbreak of certain diseases and epidemics are also the after-effects of adulteration. In a word, adulteration is like a white ant. Who are eating national health without much apparent damage?
History:
History shows that this moral evil existed even among the Greeks and Roman thousands of years ago. It could not become the talk of the town because of the want of statistical data on the subject. Moreover, the detection in those days depended to a great extent, on the delicacy of the individual. There were no chemical tests. Usually adulteration went undetected. Today it has become very common. The greed of the profit has drawn dishonest souls to this field. These people employ different modes of adulteration to deceive the people. First, they mix a thing of inferior quality with that of superior quality.
Food Adulteration:
Food adulteration is the act of adding or mixing something inferior, harmful, useless, and unnecessary substances to food. The adulteration of food means the addition of something that isn't food into a food product, in order to be able to get more products to sell at less cost. A recent example was the addition of melamine into milk, by a factory in China. The melamine resembled milk protein closely enough that the milk was able to pass inspection, yet it also proved to be toxic, causing a number of deaths. Adding sawdust to ground meat would be another example.
Conclusion:
An elaborate system of control is needed to check adulteration. An organized should be set up and provided with sufficient resources. It should investigate the dietary habits of the people and the pattern of food consumption. Rewards for informers of successful cases should be announced.

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