Milk Adulteration Test (MAT)

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Introduction

Adulteration of milk supply with chemically synthesised milky liquid termed as 'Synthetic milk' has become public health hazard and major concern for the dairy industry. Synthetic milk is prepared by emulsifying vegetable oils with appropriate amount of detergents, urea, caustic soda, sugar, salt etc. are dissolved in water and blended with the detergent emulsified oil. This mixture is mixed with the natural milk supply in varying proportions. A number of tests are currently employed by the dairy industry to check this adulteration. However, it has been a common experience that in spite of all the testing, the problem of milk adulteration continues to grow unchecked.


Machinery / Equipments:

Micro centrifuge , Microscope etc. 30,000


Raw Materials:

Milk samples, Lab chemicals etc.Glass shell


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