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India’s dairy dispute: FSSAI insists milk contamination is ‘not serious at all’The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has declared milk in India to be ‘largely safe’ following reports from its 2018 National Milk Quality Survey, holding ‘poor farm practices’ responsible for current contaminations.“[In] a large number (6432) of samples, very few samples were found to be adulterated. […] Slightly less than 10% samples had contaminants coming mainly from poor farm practices. Over 90% of the samples were found safe in the survey,” said FSSAI via its official press release on the matter. The agency has also described this survey to be ‘by far the largest systematic survey’ in terms of sample size and parameters tested, although it only covered liquid milk and not milk products. |
