While milk, as we know it, is the healthiest form of calcium with numerous health benefits to boast of, its adulteration has become a huge cause for concern around the world. Adulterants not only reduces the quality of milk but can make it hazardous. Besides water, adulterants like starch, detergent, urea, synthetic milk, and chemicals like sodium carbonate, formalin, and ammonium sulphate may be added to milk. Most of the chemicals added to milk can have long-term hazardous health effects.
Lately, however, the problem of adulteration of food products has multiplied to alarming extents thus posing serious health issues. Milk and dairy products are no exception. Cattle are fed with many steroids and hormonal injections to boost the delivery of milk production. "Oxytocin is one such injection that not only affects the cattle but indirectly the humans in the form of dairy products we…
