Studies on detection of adulteration of milk received from different sources in Nagpur tahsil

Abstract

The present investigation entitled “Studies on Detection of Adulteration of milk received from different sources in Nagpur tahsil” was undertaken during the period Dec. 2011 to April 2012 for this study. Total 100 samples were collected from individual producer, co-operative society, Govt. milk scheme, Agriculture College Dairy Farm and analysed for detection of adulteration in milk. Among the different adulterants cane sugar is the most common adulterants used for adulteration in milk while few sample from three levels of procurement i.e. individual producer, co-operative society, Govt.milk Scheme dock, milk were found adulterated with sodium bicarbonate and urea. No one milk sample was found adulterated with starch from any level of milk sample procurement. Among the various sources of milk sample procurement, the individual producer (48.00%) showed the maximum samples adulterated with different adulterants.