Qualitative Detection of milk Adulterants A Qualitative study on milk Adulterants in Capital of Jharkhand, Ranchi India

Abstract

Introduction: Food is essential for sustenance of life. Adulteration of food cheats the consumer and can pose serious risk to health in some cases. major food adulteration and contamination events seems to occur with some regularities, such as the widely publicized adulteration of milk products with melamine and the recent microbial contamination of vegetables across Europe for example. With globalization and rapid distribution systems, these can have international impacts with far–reaching and sometimes lethal consequences. These events, through potentially global in the modern era, are in fact far from contemporary and deliberate adulteration of food products is probably as old as the food processing and production system Themselves. Food forensic is a sub field of forensic chemistry which is used to detect when it is contaminated or adulterant, it helps to check the purity of the food item. Food adulteration is the most leading fraud which is growing rapidly. 
Methodology: The study was conducted is several stages to assess the presence of adulterants in the milk samples collected from different local areas of Ranchi. the methodology involved the following steps such as sample collection, presumptive testing, documentation and data recording, Analysis, interpretation using forensic chemistry principles.
Results: The qualitative analysis of 11 different brands of milk samples collected from different regions of Ranchi revealed a significant presence of hydrogen peroxide, starch, sodium chloride etc. the presumptive tests detected multiple adulterants that pose considerable health risk to consumers. 
Conclusion: The study demonstrate that milk adulteration is a prevalent and alarming issue in the city of Ranchi. It also emphasizes the urgent need for regulatory bodies, public health authorities, and forensic science professionals to work collaboratively to ensure the availability of safe and unadulterated milk for all consumers.