Many sellers often mix some unwanted substances to food to earn a heavy profit. Deliberate addition of any unwanted substance to food is called food adulteration.
Following are the harms of food adulteration:
- Unhealthy practice of business.
- Consumer is cheated.
- Results in wastage of money.
- May alter the taste of food.
- Can lead to high concentration of harmful substances in the body.
- Can cause many diseases.
- Can cause food poisoning.
- Can cause cancer.