HC directive against adulteration
Take quick, strict measures
Despite countless cases of food adulteration being detected by the mobile courts, the crime continues unabated. From fruits and vegetables to meat and fish, nothing is spared by the nefarious contaminators of food out to make a profit at the cost of human health and life. Using formalin and various other harmful chemicals in uncontrolled proportions, they ripen unripe foods such as fruit and preserve stale ones such as dead fish.
In this situation, the High Court's directive to the government to explain why it should not be asked to take necessary steps to formulate a Formalin Control Act is perhaps a long overdue but most welcome move. The directive came after a Supreme Court lawyer's writ petition seeking to have the issue placed as a bill in the current session of parliament.
Food adulteration can damage vital organs such as the liver, kidneys, colon, heart, and blood and can lead to serious types of diseases like asthma, skin disease and even cancer.
We hope that this crucial issue of health and moral business ethics will be raised in parliament and prompt action taken towards formulating the abovementioned law against adulteration of food. This inhuman crime must be curbed and it seems that the formulation and implementation of strict laws is the only way to do this. We urge the authorities to take up the issue with due seriousness and without delay.
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