FOOD is essential for nourishment and sustenance of life. Adulteration of food cheats the consumer and can pose serious risk to health in some cases. Food adulteration is thus a punishable offence under the provisions of Prevention of Food Adulteration Act, 1954 and the Rules made thereunder. Consumer awareness of quality of food and alertness in detecting common types of food adulteration can help in arresting this menance and enable Government to achieve the objective of ‘Health for All by 2000 A.D.*

The purpose of this web site is to give the consumer an opportunity to detect a few common adulterants in food. These tests will simply help the consumers to screen their day-to-day food articles. But for detailed conformatory test and qualification under P.F.A Act the analysis in a laboratory is must.

A simple kit for testing of such adulterants can be made by using apparatus and common reagents, list of which is at Appendix - II.