Pratap Singhababu
Special Issue June 2023
Volume-XI, Special Issue, June 2023 | ||
Published Online: 30.06.2025 | Page No: 205-209 | |||
Food Adulteration: Impact on Public
Health
Pratap Singhababu, State Aided College Teacher,
Department of Chemistry, Panchmura Mahavidyalaya, Bankura, West Bengal, India | |
Working principle of an engine is based on the combustion of fuels; similarly human body requires regular food intake to generate calories via metabolism process. Carbohydrates, rote proteins and fats are the main type of macronutrients in food. But now days the food is being contaminated with several adulterants like chalk and brick powder, sand, molasses, starch, sand, stone chips and various toxic chemicals to gain more profit and to sustain in the competitive commercial market. The adulteration causes various fatal & incurable diseases and also affects different human organs like liver, stoma stomach, kidney, heart & brain. Food adulteration is unethical illegal and called as "Social- Evil" & "Slow Poison". This review article highlights different types of food adulteration & impact on human body and society. | |
Keywords: Engine, macronutrients, contaminated, incurable, evil. |