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News of counterfeit food and police busting factories of fake consumables has become quite rampant
News of counterfeit food and police raiding factories of fake consumer products has become quite rampant and one has to be extra careful before buying and consuming anything from the market.
In an effort to tackle the threat of counterfeiting, the official Twitter handle of FSSAI (Food Safety and Standards Authority of India), a regulatory body responsible for regulating the storage, distribution and production of safe food for consumption, a video demonstrating the steps to detect turmeric adulteration in Sella rice.
In the video titled “Detecting Turmeric Counterfeiting in Sella Rice,” a handful of Sella rice is placed on two glass plates, then soaked lime or chuna is placed on the rice grains in both plates. Through a split screen, it is then shown that the soaked lime from one plate where the Sella rice was spilled had turned red, while the soaked lime in the other plate remained white.
Below is the step-by-step guide to perform the test:
- Take a handful of your Sella rice and place it on a glass plate.
- Then add some soaked lime or chuna to the rice. Soaked lime is readily available in the market.
- If the soaked lime turns red, this indicates that your Sella rice has been adulterated with turmeric.
- If the soaked lime remains white and shows no color change, your rice is unadulterated and safe for consumption.
- Earlier, the body had also shared another video demonstrating the method of detecting adulteration of foreign substances in food grains.
The Delhi government has also stepped up its efforts to fight counterfeiting as it has launched a special campaign to control counterfeiting of sweets during the holiday season in Delhi. Through the drive, the authority also managed to seize 700kg of smelly Khoya along with 1000kg of unsafe paneer from Mori Gate in Delhi.
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