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What is food adulteration? Give one/two example.
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What do you mean by the term food adulteration?
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Food adulteration means deliberate mixing of low quality, undesirable, inedible and even toxic materials in food items. It is harmful to health and can cause serious diseases.
Examples:
- Mixing of argemone oil in mustard oil and other edible oils, which causes a serious disease called dropsy.
- Mixing of kesari dal in arhar dal, which can cause paralysis of the legs (lathyrism).
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