IIPM EDITORIAL: Sweet nothings!

This time around when you queue up outsi

de a sweetmeat shop to buy that favourite mithai (sweetmeats) especially during Diwali, you’ll do well to check the credentials of the shop you go to! Come festival season and what is likely to begin all over again, is the affair of churning dough at the cost of the health of hundreds of thousands of unsuspecting consumers. With the demand of milk soaring during the festive season, unscrupulous elements replace fresh milk with life threatening ingredients like liquefied detergent (Ezee), refined oil, urea, rose essence and only minute quantities of what it actually should be– genuine milk. Makes you cringe, doesn’t it? Now raising the curtain and putting it in the simplest of terms, here’s a glimpse of what could happen if one was to consume these ‘poisonous sweetmeats’.

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