BHOPAL: Go for packed milk in Madhya Pradesh cities, these appear safe, but there is a 48 per cent chance that the same would be adulterated if you buy it from the villages.
Packed milk sold in the cities has been found pure and free from adulteration, but its not so in rural areas in Madhya Pradesh, according to a Food Safety and Standard Authority of India (FSSAI) test report, a senior official disclosed.
"No packed milk sample taken from any of the state's cities by FSSAI was found adulterated, according to its last month report," State Food and Drugs Department Controller AK Rai confirmed to TOI on Friday. But contrary to the perception that food stuff and milk was more pure in rural areas, both packed and unpacked milk sold in the rural areas were found to be spiked with water and having less fat and solids.
Rai said FSSAI took 61 milk samples from MP, out of which 29 were found to be impure. This meant that 48 per cent was not pure, he added.
He however said MP did well in the milk samples tests conducted all over northern India. Not a single sample out of the 61 contained urea that was found in milk samples of West Bengal, Jharkhand, Orissa and Bihar.
According to the FSSAI report, milk quality was best in the country in Goa and Pondicherry, following by Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka. "We are after Karnataka in the list, "he claimed.
He said all the 19 samples collected from Chhattisgarh, carved out of MP, failed in the test.
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