Home Science Chapter 17 Food Adulteration

Possible conditions under which the Food Safety and Standard Authority of India (FSSAI) imposes fine on a shopkeeper are

1. Mustard oil adulterated with argemone oil/mineral oil/rancid oil.
2. The oil traders use a substance called butter oil to get the mustardy yellow colour and then camouflage the smell by mixing essence of mustard.

Health Hazards:

1. Epidemic dropsy and Glaucoma.
2. Oxidative stress and death of red blood cells.
3. Gatro intestinal disturbance.
4. Liver gets enlarged.

1. Yellow colour because of metanil yellow
2. Shape of channa dal is not uniform because of adulteration of Kesari dal

Other food adulterated with metanil yellow

1. Besan sweet
2. jalebi
3. ladoo
4. jaggery Ice candy

Other food adulterated with kesari dal:

1. Whole masoor( in whole form)
2. Arhar dal( in split form)
3. Besan ( in powder form)

Health hazards of metanil yellow

1. Carcinogenic
2. Abnormalities of skin, lungs, eyes , bones.
3. Sterlity
4. Anemia
5. Mental retardation
6. Lead accumulation

Health hazards of Kesari Dal:

1. Pain and stiffness of knee, ankle and joints in males
2. Paralysis of lower limbs/crippled(/ lathyrism )

Conditions are:

1. Apples used to prepare jam are rotten.
2. Jam Prepared under unhygienic conditions.
3. Too much-permitted colour/preservative used.
4. An unpermitted preservative or unpermitted colours are used.
5. Jam not prepared according to prescribed. Standards of FSSAI.