Adulterated Food :
| Adulterated food is the improper, inappropriate food not intended to be purchased and eaten. It is supplied and sold to the potential end user with the sole aim of making money knowing fully well that it is illegal and damaging to the health of the consumer. |
Sometimes food becomes spoilt and adulterated because of natural reasons like microbial activity; even then supplying such food in the market is severely punishable as per law.
Whatever may be the reason, the food will be called an adulterated one if the purchaser finds the nature, substance or quality to be different from the one intended to be purchased. Mixing low quality permissible additives and preservatives affecting food quality, substituting cheaper materials in place of original food item, processing food materials under unsanitary conditions using inferior technology and preserving food under unhygienic poor storage conditions leading to contamination and damage are common forms of food adulteration.
The U.S. Constitution has enacted several laws to contain and prevent food adulteration. Nutritional supplements quality standards and details about unacceptable food ingredients have been clearly defined. SEC.402. [342] defines what an adulterated food is. Chapter 5 of title 5, United States Code prescribes good manufacturing practices for food. Section 402(a)(2) relates to “items added to food”.
Personal Responsibility in Food Consumption Act popularly known as the Cheeseburger Bill has put the onus on the consumer to prove that the food was responsible for causing health hazard. Therefore, consumers should be very careful and evaluate each and every food product they purchase in order to avoid purchasing unwanted and adulterated food. Quantity and nature of artificial additives, sweeteners, colorings, preservatives and hydrogenated fat content should be thoroughly checked before purchase to avoid health problems and possibility of litigations.
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