Why milk is adultrated?

[SWAMY1807]

Dear All,
If you thought your glass of milk will give you guaranteed nutrition, think again!

The first mass survey of quality of milk supplied to consumers across the country by the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India has led to shocking discoveries with as many as 69 per cent of the samples failing the test of purity.

At least 14 per cent of milk samples were found to contain traces of detergents. However, these non-conforming milk samples were confined to states of Bihar, Jharkhand, Orissa and West Bengal only.
Watch out for that

The survey by the country's food regulator to ascertain the quality of milk and find adulteration types, found that not a single sample of milk collected in seven states of Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Daman and Diu, Jharkhand, Orissa, West Bengal and Mizoram conformed to quality standards of milk.

Presence of sodium chloride was detected in a milk sample taken in Assam, while two samples taken in Nagaland saw presence of neutralizers.

However, all milk samples taken in Goa and Puducherry conformed to the standards.

The study indicates that addition of water to milk is the most common adulterant, which not only reduces the nutritional value of milk but contaminated water may also pose a health risk.

Any microbial contamination due to addition of contaminated water can, however, be overcome by thoroughly boiling the milk before consumption, the central food authority held.

The survey also shows that powdered milk is reconstituted by addition of skimmed milk powder, glucose and fat to meet the demand of milk supply.

The second highest parameter of non conformity was the Skim Milk Powder (SMP) in 548 samples (44.69%) which includes presence of glucose in 477 samples and Glucose is added to milk probably to enhance SNF.

A total of 1,791 samples were analysed from 33 states and Union Territories out of which 1,226 samples (68.4 per cent) were found non-conforming to standards, 46.8 per cent samples were found deficient in fat and solids not fat, 44.7 per cent sample were found containing skimmed milk powder and 8.4 per cent samples were found containing detergents.

The results of the sample tests from other states show that in Manipur and Meghalaya a total of 96 per cent samples failed while 92 per cent samples failed in Tripura, 89 per cent in Gujarat and Sikkim and 88 per cent failed in
Uttrakhand and Uttar Pradesh.

In Nagaland 86 per cent samples failed the standards test, while 83 per cent failed in Jammu & Kashmir.

In Punjab 81 per cent milk samples failed the quality test, while in Rajasthan, 76 per cent failed to conform to the quality standards and 70 per cent failed in both Delhi and Haryana, 68 per cent failed in Arunachal Pradesh, 65 per cent in Maharashtra and 59 per cent in Himachal Pradesh.

Besides, 58 per cent milk samples failed the quality tests in Dadra and Nagar Haveli, 55 per cent in Assam, 48 per cent in Chandigarh and Madhya Pradesh, 28 per cent in Kerala and 22 per cent in Karnataka while 12 per cent failed in Tamil Nadu and 6.7 per cent in Andhra Pradesh.

Farmer who produce milk should rethink again to maintain the clean IN COW, CATTLE SHED AND PERSON WHO COLLECTING MILK AND WHILE TRANSPORTING MILK TO DAIRY.


Dear Farmers, Where can you do something to get good milk?

Cattle shed should be clean.
Cattle should be washed timely.
Cattle teats should be washed & wiped with smooth dry cloth before collecting milk.
The person who is collecting should be clean and healthy.
Containers in which milk is collecting should be cleaned.
No container should be washed with any soap, detergent except baking soda.
Use containers which mouth is as small as possible to avoid contamination from air.
While applying any oil to teats before collecting milk should be cleaned and kept in a bottle.
Ensure the person who is having wounds should not collect milk.
Please don't carry milk to dairy with opened container, if used then every chance is possible for contamination.
Don't mix any other thing including water with the milk.
Who encourage pure and practice the same will get respect from others.
If possible (for small farmers) you can get cow to milk collection center and get milking machine free and collect milk from cow and send it to dairy(your milk will be measured before sending it to dairy container.
Our dairy Farmers should also have the same respect.
Regards,
SWAMY

 

[manas reddy]

Organize the industry

Dear Mr. Swamy,

Appreciate you suggestions to improve milk quality, however the problem is different and wide spread, to understand why adulteration is happening we need to understand the nature of the industry and the report published.

dairy industry in India is not the same in every state, if you look at the best performing states, they all one thing in common, large dairy co-operatives and organized dairy industry, the poor performing states have very poorly organized dairy industry.

The adulteration itself does not happen at the farm gate, every dairy processor, private or co-op will test the milk before processing, the adulteration happens after the milk leaves the farm, either in the processing units or by the small scale dairy outlets spread across the cities.

this will be more evident once the report is analysed.

the only way out of this mess is that the government should encourage large scale dairy farms and enable setting up of on farm pasteurization and packaging, it should be made mandatory for all dairy product sellers to sell the products after packaging and testing certification from the respective standards agency.

this will work however the problem in India starts from the vote bank politics, encouraging large dairy farms will be seen as anti-farmer move fearing backlash from farmers the govt. provides small loans for micro dairy projects, which are difficult to control and not financially viable.

this govt. policy is hindering the growth of pvt. dairies, due to the micro dairy program, the demand for cows has gone through the roof, the mechanization required for large scale farms is not available in India.

finally due to the flawed dairy cow production improvement policy through indiscriminate artificial insemination of indigenous breeds with HF and Gersy breeds in micro farms were the actual benefit cannot be measured and progeny testing is literally unknown, getting a good quality cow is like searching for gold in an iron mine.

the govt. should start thinking straight and look at countries like Brazil who have made strides in developing private dairy industry.

Manas Reddy
Let the market decide what it wants to buy and sell

 

[agrogreens]

Dairy

Both of u guys have contributed very well. Lets not depend on the govt. For any actio. This is not a very big job and a group of like minded individuals can very well take up the matter in their hands and set things right. Lets see if we can do it.

Manish