Milk testing II How to check urea Adultration? II

Increased demand for milk products during the festival season leads to rampant adulteration. Since milk and milk products constitute such a huge market, adulteration is an easy way to make money for many people

Though water remains the most common milk adulterant, increasingly detergent, caustic soda, glucose, urea , and refined oil are being used to adulterate milk. Water thins the milk but other adulterants make it appear thick. Adulterants like salt, detergents and glucose add to the thickness and viscosity of the diluted milk while starch prevents its curdling. So Non-water adulterants make it difficult for a consumer to suspect that the milk is diluted or adulterated.

Adulterated milk can bad effect the functioning of various organs of the body, causing heart problems, cancer, and in extreme cases, even death.

One of the method of testing urea added in milk to make it thick can be found out by this method using soyabean powder and red litmus strips