68% of milk doesn’t meet food norms
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02/07/2013
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Times Of India (New Delhi)
Common nutritional supplement milk you take may not be all that nutritious as majority of samples of milk supplied across the country failed to meet the food safety and standard norms.
The Centre on Tuesday dished out this startling fact about the health of milk supplied both loose or in packets and informed the apex court that 68.4% of the samples collected from rural and urban areas of all states failed food safety and standards (FSS).
A bench of Justices K S Radhakrishnan and Pinaki Chandra Ghosh was startled when additional solicitor general Rakesh Khanna informed that 88% of the samples taken from UP were found to be adulterated. It said: “It’s a sensitive issue. It is happening all over the country. If 88% is adulterated, then officers need to be prosecuted. If it is still going on, what action has been taken against the officers? We will grant three weeks for the six states to respond.”