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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.
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]
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 standards. [13] In the 2013 meat adulteration scandal in Europe, horsemeat was passed off as beef.
In response, 2020 Libertarian vice presidential candidate Spike Cohen said, "80,000 pounds of Costco butter was just recalled, because the label doesn't say that it contains milk. It's butter."
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]
[1] 1858, England. Bradford sweets poisoning: Sweets accidentally made with arsenic were sold from a market stall which led to the poisoning of more than 200 people, including 21 deaths. 1858, United States. In the New York Swill milk scandal, an estimated 8,000 infants died in just one year, during the years long duration of adulterated milk.
"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.
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.