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The source of the adulteration was the cinnamon, which was thought to have been adulterated to enhance its weight or color. [115] 2024 United Kingdom Shigatoxigenic E. coli outbreak – Supermarket sandwich products containing contaminated salad leaves led to one death and over 200 confirmed cases. [116] 2024 Laos methanol poisoning [117]
Adulteration is a legal offense and when the food fails to meet the legal standards set by the government, it is said to have been Adulterated Food.One form of adulteration is the addition of another substance to a food item in order to increase the quantity of the food item in raw form or prepared form, which results in the loss of the actual quality of the food item.
Infant formula produced from this milk killed at least six children and is believed to have harmed two hundred thousand children. [citation needed] In 2012, a study in India across 29 states and union territories found that milk was adulterated with detergent, fat, and even urea, and diluted with water. Just 31.5% of samples conformed to FSSAI ...
"Before melamine, the dealers added rice porridge or starch into the milk to artificially boost the protein count, but that method was easily tested as fake, so they switched to melamine,” said Zhao Huibin, a dairy farmer near Shijiazhuang. [58] Investigators say the adulteration was nothing short of a wholesale re-engineering of milk.
A 19th-century illustration of "swill milk" being produced: a sickly cow being milked while held up by ropes. The swill milk scandal was a major adulterated food scandal in the state of New York in the 1850s. The New York Times reported an estimate that in one year, 8,000 infants died from swill milk. [1] [2]
2008 Chinese milk scandal (14 P) M. Methanol poisoning incidents (21 P) Pages in category "Adulteration" The following 60 pages are in this category, out of 60 total.
[1] The following list encompasses notable medicine contamination and adulteration incidents. 1937 Elixir sulfanilamide incident: S. E. Massengill Company used diethylene glycol as the solvent for the antibacterial sulfanilamide, leading to the 1938 passage of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. [2] [3]
The most widely used anticaking agents include the stearates of calcium and magnesium, silica and various silicates, talc, as well as flour and starch. Ferrocyanides are used for table salt. [ 1 ] The following anticaking agents are listed in order by their number in the Codex Alimentarius by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN.