The impact of adulterated food on health

Introduction: In our daily life there are so many unhygienic and contaminated things for our health. Most of our things our contaminated. Even the food, which we eat, is adulterated. Now a question arises that what is adulteration? The answer is that the deliberate contamination of food material with low quality, cheap and non-edible or toxic substances is called food adulteration. The substance, which lowers or degrades the quality of food material, is called an adulterant. Adulteration brings a lot of easy money for the traders, but it may spoil many lives. Food adulteration can lead to slow poisoning and various kinds of diseases, which can even result in death. Adulteration makes the food items used in our daily life unsafe and unhygienic for use. An easy example of food adulteration is vanaspati ghee in desi ghee. The traders use it for their economic benefit without thinking about its effect on the common population of our country, which consumes it. For preventing it our government has made some certain commissions and laws. Still it prevails in our country on large scale. Adulteration should be checked properly in common food items so as to save people from its bad effects. Adulteration is the government and we for the common people therefore something should do a type of curse against it.

Executive summary: This research paper focuses on the drive against food adulteration and is aimed at finding all the related effects of this drive upon the University students. The paper studies the eating habits of the students and their awareness of food adulteration, the initial reaction of students towards this drive, the pros and cons of the drive, ways of making this drive more effective and finally the long term effects of the drive. Thesis: Although fast food is convenient, inexpensive, and is basically a cultural phenomenon, we as a society need to stop eating fast food because it has increased health problems, has taken away from family values, destroys the environment, and has created a food economy dominated by giant corporations.

RESEARCH AIM AND DESIGN The research goals were: (1) to acquire greater knowledge of the concepts of health amongst preadolescents; (2) to investigate the relationship between the concepts of health and health behaviour amongst pre-adolescents; (3) to study the impact of educational policies on the concepts of health; (4) to make recommendations for health promotion among youngsters; (5) to produce guidelines for revision of school curriculum plans. The general aim of the study is to examine the models of health as perceived by school children and the way these influence their health behaviour and their health status. In order to study this relationship, four areas are assessed independently: the concept of health amongst 10-13 year old children (the main subject for study), the health education offered to these children (the major variable open for action), the health behaviour of these children, and the health status of these children (the assumed two major long term outcome variables). The project has two phases: An Exploratory Study and a Longitudinal Study. The exploratory study of the research project has been finalized and most of the data of this study have now been analyzed. The aim of this phase was to obtain a first impression of the range of concepts of health held by school children and to hypothesize on the correlation between these concepts and certain background variables. For this reason we have opted, at this stage of the research, to employ a predominantly qualitative approach. Quantitative analysis may be required in follow-up exercises. The research goals of the exploratory study, other than providing technical information for the longitudinal project, are: (a) to acquire qualitative knowledge of the range of concepts of health amongst 10-year old children; (b) to obtain insight in the functioning of the National Curriculum at the school level; (c) to make recommendations for basic revision of the National Curriculum. The exploratory study focused on children in year 5 of a primary school in the North-West of England. The study included a variety of research tools. Children were presented with questionnaires with open-ended and closed questions in order to obtain their self-image and their view of health. Most of the background variables, such as social-economic status, ethnicity, home situation, family background, were collected indirectly, either through the class teacher or with the aid of certain activities. All children

kept a food diary for one week, so that we could assess their diet. They were asked to write short essays and make drawings on various topics. Measurements were taken of all children to obtain an assessment of their body-mass index and their physical stamina. The most important aspect of the data collection of this exploratory study was the use of focus group discussions, as this gave us the opportunity to discuss their view of health with the children. The focus group discussions were programmed towards the end of the field work, for the children to get to know the researcher and to create some rapport. The focus groups consisted of small groups of pupils. Finally, the school head and the class teacher were questioned on the health education provided to the pupils. What we will present here are our impressions after the initial analysis of the research data. We will focus on the data from the focus group discussions and the draw-and-write exercises. A more full account of the analysis will be presented elsewhere.

Procedure for detection the Adulteration in the food Items; Adulteration in the food material can be detected in the following ways. 1. Vanaspti in Ghee :- Took one tea spoon full of liquid ghee. Added equal quantity of conc. HCl shook this mixture in a test tube. Now added a pinch of common sugar. Shook it well for about one minute and then allowed it to stand for 5 minute and observed the result. 2. Water in milk sample:- Put a drop of sample milk on a plain slide. Tittled the slide and observed the result. 3. Agremone oil in edible oil :- Took some amount of edible oil in a test tube. Poured 3-4 drops of conc nitric acid. Shook it well and observed the result. 4. Metanil yellow in Dal :- Took 5 gms of sample. Add 5ml of water and a few drops of dil. HCl and observed the result. CONCLUSIONS The children who took part in the research project all had internalized the

adults view of health that health is physical and has biomechanical characteristics. The concept that health also comprises mental health and social well-being, is completely absent. Nevertheless, the children had a sophisticated and rational notion of health, be it that it all focussed on health behaviour. Health was considered to be equal to eating healthy foods (i.e. not the nice things); to doing lots of exercise; and to taking in fresh air. In contrast to adults view of health, the childrens disease aetiology was purely endogenous and lacked the notion of exogenesis. The children have strong ideas about friends and emotions, but do not link these to the concept of health. In contrast to adults, one can even state that children do recognize their own emotional needs, whereas (British) adults often even deny these. References: Journal of food science Development and application of a database of food ingredient Fraud and economically motivated adulteration from 1980 to 2010. Authors: J. C. Moore, J. Spink, M. Lipp