Milk Adulteration and Its Impact on Public Health: A Study of District Layyah, Pakistan

Abstract

Adulteration of milk is a serious problem all over the world. This issue is found in Pakistan as well. This endeavor was taken in order to evaluate the information about milk adulteration among customers in urban regions and to look at the health consciousness level about milk adulteration. This survey was done by the participation of 385 respondents from district Layyah by using simple random sampling technique. Analysis shows that milk adulteration and health awareness relationship was found. Researcher concluded that people knew that milk is adulterated by water and it has some negative consequences on the health of people but people have no Idea how to detect milk adulteration.