ADULTERATION

ADULTERATION
The toll of human life that adulteration takes is only next to war. The damage done 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. Out of certain disease and epidemics are also the after effect of adulteration. In a world, adulteration are like white ants who are eating away national health with out much apparent damage.
History shows that this moral evil existed even among the Greeks and the Roman thousands of years ago. It could not become the talk of the town only 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 lure of profit has drawn unscrupulous souls to this field. These people employ different modes of adulteration to deceive the people. First, they mix a thing of interior quality with that of a superior quality. Milk is adulterated with milk powder or starch; butter is adulterated with grease or white oil; Edible oil is adulterated with mobile oil; Turmeric is adulterated with yellow earth. Secondly they substitute, in whole or in parts, one thing for another like saccharin, For sugar. Thirdly they abstract valuable constituents of a thing such as butter from milk. Fourthly they color the original article so that it may seen superior. Fifthly, they use certain chemicals to preserve food without knowing that they are injurious to health. Sixthly, they add decomposed articles to good ones; rotten eggs are sold with fresh eggs. Lastly, they misbrand or mislabel their articles: "Fond cream" and "Zarf" are sold for "Pond cream" and "Serf".
Check and Balance:-
An elaborate system of control is needed to check adulteration. An organized committee should be set up and provided with sufficient resources. It should investigate the dietary habits of the people and the pattern of food consumption. Reward for informants of successful cases should be announced. Detection test should be simple to avoid delays and technical assistance. Honest labeling giving character, origin, amount and constituent parts of the food should be introduced. The adulterators should be openly tried and awarded punishments. It is only that we can eradicate this evil from society.