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Consumer Problems and Food Adulteration
Home Science · Chapter 8 · 4. Consumer Education
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- Problems faced by consumers: price variation, hoarding, black marketing, unfair measurement
- Misleading advertisements, deceptive packaging and sale of sub-standard goods
- Food adulteration: definition under the PFA Act; common adulterants (stones, dust, argemone seeds and oil, metanil yellow, kesari dal, toxic colours, chicory, starch) and their effects