Indore: A team of food safety officials launched a food safety and hygiene awareness programme and demonstrated ways to check food quality at private school in Rau on Thursday. They guided students about hazards of consuming junk food and appealed to them to eat right and healthy.
Food safety officer Manish Swami said before launching SNF@School programme, an awareness programme has been launched in schools to teach students how to check contamination in milk and spices. Department had a target to cover six schools on Thursday but devoted time to one school.
How to check water contamination in milk?
Milk slip test - Put a drop of milk on a polished vertical surface. If it stops or flows slowly, leaving a white trail behind, it is pure milk. Milk mixed with water or other agents will flow down immediately without a trace.
Reduction test - Boil some milk on a slow heat while moving it with a spoon till it becomes solid (khoya). Take it off the heat and wait for 2-3 hours. If the produced solid is oily, the milk is of good quality; if it’s not, it means the milk is synthetic.
Colours in spices
To check colours in spices like fennel seeds, coriander seeds etc, they should be washed and if they release colour, it means they contain synthetic colours.
