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An adulterant is a substance found in other materials like food, cosmetics, and chemicals that compromises safety or effectiveness. Common reasons for adulteration include using cheaper substitute materials and failure to remove harmful substances from raw materials. The document then lists common food adulterants in India, including diluted water, detergent, and chemicals added to milk, as well as synthetic ingredients and contaminants found in other foods like spices, sweets, and ice cream.

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An adulterant is a substance found in other materials like food, cosmetics, and chemicals that compromises safety or effectiveness. Common reasons for adulteration include using cheaper substitute materials and failure to remove harmful substances from raw materials. The document then lists common food adulterants in India, including diluted water, detergent, and chemicals added to milk, as well as synthetic ingredients and contaminants found in other foods like spices, sweets, and ice cream.

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ADULTO-METER

Adulteration:

An adulterant is a substance found within other substances such as food, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, fuel or


other chemicals that compromises the safety or effectiveness of said substance.
It will not normally be present in any specification or declared contents of the substance, and may not be legally allowed.
The addition of adulterants is called adulteration. 
The most common reason for adulteration is the use by manufacturers of undeclared materials that are cheaper than the
correct and declared ones. The adulterants may be harmful, or reduce the potency of the product, or they may be harmless.
Adulteration therefore implies that the adulterant was introduced deliberately in the initial manufacturing process, or
sometimes that it was present in the raw materials and should have been removed, but was not.
Adulterants added to reduce the amount of expensive product in illicit drugs are called cutting agents.
Deliberate addition of toxic adulterants to food or other products for human consumption is poisoning.
Most commonly adulterated food product is MILK.

Most common food Adulterant in India:

S.No Food Product Adulterants Used


1 Milk Diluted water, detergent, fat, urea, chalk, caustic soda
2 Milk Khoya Paper, refined oil, skimmed milk powder
3 Tea & Coffee Other same colored leaves & Tamarind seeds, mustard seeds
4 Wheat and food grains Ergot
5 Fruits and vegetables Chemical dyes, sachharin, wax, calcium carbide, copper sulphate
6 Sweets Silver vark (Aluminium), starch, coal tar dye
7 Honey Molasses sugar
8 Dal Dye (Metanil yellow)
9 Spices Dye (Metanil yellow, red oxide of lead, sudan red), papaya seeds and black berries
(Powdered), brick powder or talc powder.
10 Ice cream Pepperonil (Pesticide), ethylacetate, butraldehyde, emil acetate, nitrate, washing
powder, synthetic gum (From animal parts/ nose, tail etc)

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