Volume 1, Issue 1, 2017

Risk of adulteration in milk consumed at Shaheed Benazirabad District of Sindh

Ghulam Shabir Barham^1♦, Muhammad Khaskheli¹, Aijaz Hussain Soomro², Zaheer Ahmed Nizamani³

¹Department of Animal Products Technology, Sindh Agriculture University, Tandojam, Pakistan
²Institute of Food Sciences and Technology, Sindh Agriculture University, Tandojam, Pakistan
³Department of Veterinary Pathology, Sindh Agriculture University, Tandojam, Pakistan

^♦Corresponding author
Dr. Ghulam Shabir Barham, PhD Scholar, Department of Animal Products Technology, Faculty of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Sciences, Sindh Agriculture University, Tandojam, Pakistan

ABSTRACT

In the current scenario, food adulteration is major issue of significant importance in the developing world. Specially milk adulteration paid more attention in this regard and this unethical activity is practiced frequent. Milk marketing channels are directly involved in this unethical activity. The study was planned to detect different adulterants in the market milk sold in the locality of Shaheed Benazirabad formerly Nawabshah district of Sindh during the year 2014. A total of 100 milk samples were collected, twenty (n= 20) from each milk producers (MP), milk collectors (MC), middlemen (MM), processors (P) and dairy shops (DS), were observed for different adulterants. Among these adulterants water was found in bulk of milk samples, followed by detergent, starch, rice flour, cane sugar, skimmed milk powder, caustic soda, formalin, vegetable oil, hydrogen peroxide, sodium chloride, urea, ammonium sulfate, boric acid, glucose, arrowroot, and sorbitol. Freezing point of 50% milk samples of MP, 70% of MC, 75% of P, 80% of MM, and 95% of DS appeared towards 0 oC rather than that of control milk, and assumed to be adulterated with extraneous water. The extent of extraneous water in milk sold at DS, MC, P and MM was non-significant (P>0.05) with each other, but remarkably higher (P<0.05) as compared to MP. The ratio of adulteration among DS, MM and MC was found non-significant (P>0.05) with each other, but significantly (P<0.05) higher than P and MP.

Keywords: Adulteration, extent of extraneous water, freezing point and market milk.

International journal of adulteration, 2017; 1: e3ijad3005

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.54905/disssi.v1i1.e3ijad3005

Published: 27 October 2017