Milk Adulteration and Detection

Abstract

Milk adulteration is a worldwide apprehension that adversely affects progressing countries like India. Milk is a healthy drink that consists of several macro and micro nutrients which offer gamut of health benefits and is consumed by people of all age groups. Addition of extraneous matter like starch, sugar, caustic soda, ammonia refined vegetable oil, common detergent etc into the milk lowers its nutritious value there by posing risk to health. Hence it is very important to test the purity of milk before consumption as synthetic milk and pure milk more or less look the same and have a same taste. This paper describes a detection system that consumes less time to determine the parameters like Nacl, urea, pH and water percentage contained in the milk with the help of sensors incorporated in the system.