The motivation for food fraud through milk adulteration is economic
Milk and dairy product adulteration came into global concern after breakthrough of melamine contamination in Chinese infant milk products in 2008. However, history of milk adulteration is very old. Swill milk scandal has been reported in 1850 which killed 8000 infants in New York alone. Milk is considered to be the ‘ideal food’ because of […]
Low milk prices forces dairy farmers in Maharashtra to dump milk on roads
Dairy farmers in Maharashtra started protesting over the low prices of milk on Thursday morning. The protest, organised by the All India Kisan Sabha-the farmer’s outfit of the Communist party. The protest saw farmers emptying their milk cartoons on the road at various places in Aurangabad and Ahmednagar. Since the start of the lockdown in […]
Replacing SNF with Protein will make milk pricing in India inclusive and milk more safe
“Carpentras, a village in southeastern France, which shortly held the country’s all-time heat record of 44.3 degrees on last Friday. The record was topped again later in the afternoon in the southern village of Villevieille, 100 kilometers (60 miles) to the east, which measured a thermometer-busting 45.1 degrees Celsius (113 Fahrenheit).” Same is true with […]
Milk quality testing is high in priority list of FSSAI : Arun Singhal CEO FSSAI
The Narendra Modi government plans to increase the quality checks on milk, edible oil, honey, meat and poultry. This was told to The print by FSSAI’s newCEO, Arun Singhal. It was his first media interaction . FSSAI will identify more food products that are susceptible to adulteration. It will also identify the hotspots where such […]