Dear Paroma,

Thanks to your kind words.You can download my paper entitled " Milk adulteration a growing public health concern" from Research Gate.

In case you do not succeed, please inform me immediately. I will search from my Lab Top and will try to send you.

With best wishes,

Prof.Dr.Mahendra Pal

Really a time demanding question. Actually everything which are less costly than spices can be mixed with it. Interestingly businessman mix with the same coloured inert material for getting maximum profit.

Thank you so much Bir Jahangir Shirazy and Mahmoud M Suhail.

Dear Paroma,

Adulteration of food is highly rampant in many countries of the world. The spices are commonly used in kitchen of every household. A large number of adulterants such as argemone seed, bark, brick powder, chalk powder, dirt, papaya seed, saw dust, starch , stone etc.. are deliberately mixed to various types of spices. In addition, artificial colors are also added. I give example of black pepper in which papaya seeds are frequently incorporated. I strongly emphasize that adulteration of every food including spices must be prevented

I have uploaded one paper on adulteration on Research Gate,If you wish,you can download this paper.

Prof.Dr.Mahendra Pal

Dear Mahendra Sir, thanks for your suggestions. I went through your profile. I have found your work very interesting. But I could not find files on adulteration. Can you please give me the link or pdf?

Dear Paroma,

Thanks to your kind words.You can download my paper entitled " Milk adulteration a growing public health concern" from Research Gate.

In case you do not succeed, please inform me immediately. I will search from my Lab Top and will try to send you.

With best wishes,

Prof.Dr.Mahendra Pal

Following

Dear Paroma

Our attached 2018 review paper "Herb and spice fraud; the drivers, challenges and detection" gives a useful table of recorded adulterants, including dyes, in spices and herbs.

best wishes

Kevin

The common adulterants which are added in to these spices are sand, dirt, earth gritty matter, artificial colour, starch, chalk powder, bark, stone, saw dust, lead chromate and argemone seed etc.

There are counterfeit curry powder with cancer causing toxic substance. Poorly dried spice with molds growing.

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Following

The risk of consuming adultered spices is more if we use loose spices. The common adulterants which are added in to these spices are sand, dirt, earth gritty matter, artificial colour, starch, chalk powder, bark, stone, saw dust, lead chromate and argemone seed

Ground stones of different colors and sizes are commonly used so that they blend in with the actual spice. For example, fine brick powder is used to adulterate chili powder. Coarsely ground tamarind seeds are sued for adulterating coffee grounds and saw dust of various colors to adulterate turmeric, coriander and cumin.

Avoid to use open and non branded spices. The common adulterants which are added in to these spices are sand, dirt, earth gritty matter, artificial colour, starch, chalk powder, bark, stone, saw dust, lead chromate and argemone seed.

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Please see the following RG link.

Article Detection of food adulterants in chilli, turmeric and corian...

Adulteration of various types of foods including spices is deliberately done for financial gain. It is advised that one should purchase the spices from reliable sources and not from street vendors.

I am attaching my very recent article on " Food adulteration: A global public health concern ". This paper is also available at Research Gate.

Nowadays, vegetables are treated with various colours commonly green colour. It is a kind of vegetable-adulteration.

So interesting question and informative answers