Volume 1, Issue 1, 2017

Food adulteration: Pakistan on the verge of nutritional crisis

Muhammad Hassan Khan^1♦, Atta Abbas^{1, 2, 3}

¹Faculty of Pharmacy, Ziauddin University, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
²Department of Pharmacy, Health and Well Being, Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of Sunderland, England, United Kingdom
³Department of Pharmacy, Clifton Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan

^♦Corresponding author
Muhammad Hassan Khan, Faculty of Pharmacy, Ziauddin University, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan; Email: phr.hasan.khan@gmail.com

ABSTRACT

Food adulteration is a new-fangled marketing strategy for many suppliers who increase their product’s sale by mixing or treating food with adulterants which is profitable but risks human health. Vegetables, fruits, meat, milk four primitive food items used in daily life by all the standard of living is compromised nowadays. A seemingly healthy food which is supposed to augment growth and development of the human body in reality gives catastrophic effects on the health. This opinion highlights these factors and focus on the need to avoid indulging in such practices in Pakistan as the country is on the verge of a nutritional crisis due to food adulteration.

Keywords: Food adulteration; Pakistan; human health

International journal of adulteration, 2017; 1: e1ijad3001

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.54905/disssi.v1i1.e1ijad3001

Published: 16 July 2017