Ludhiana, May 13
Residents can get their milk tested at the Dairy Development Board’s office at Model Town, near Chatar Singh Park. If you are a group of 40 persons from a locality, then a team from the board will collect samples from your doorstep.
“We regularly collect milk samples from different localities. Those residents, who want to get milk tested, can visit the office. If there are 40 samples from a locality, a team from the board will visit the locality to collect samples. For multiple samples, one can call up at 0161-2400223,” said Santokh Singh, District Inspector, Dairy Development Board.
Today, a team of the board collected 39 samples from Joshi Nagar, of which 16 were found adulterated with water. The water content in these samples was between 3 and 36 per cent. No chemical adulteration was found, said Jaswinder Singh, Senior Development Officer.
There are around 13 solid contents in pure milk, 4.5 per cent fat, 8.5 per cent solid non-fat with 3.5 per cent protein, 4.9 per cent lactose and .8 per cent minerals. Around 83-87 percent is natural fluid. In adulterated milk, most of the times the total solid content is only around 3-4 per cent and the fluid content goes up to 92-93 per cent.
Experts take
Intake of adulterated milk can lead to a stunted growth in children below one year of age while in older ones it can cause problems like diarrhoea, vomiting and stomach infections.
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