Both the government and the dairy industry have been concerned about milk adulteration. "Milk adulterants have hazardous health effects," according to the Indian Council of Medical Research. Food poisoning and other gastrointestinal problems can be caused by the detergent in milk. Its high alkaline content can also damage body tissue and cause protein oxidation. Other synthetic components have been linked to cognitive impairments, cardiac attacks, cancer, and even death. Although gastroenteritis is the immediate effect of drinking milk tainted with urea, caustic soda, or formalin, the long-term consequences are much more serious."

Milk is often mixed with water, which not only decreases its nutritional value but also exposes it to contaminants that can cause substantial health issues. Detergent, starch, synthetic fat, sodium hydroxide (caustic soda), sugar, urea, pond water, salt, maltodextrin, sodium carbonate, formalin, and ammonium sulphate are amongst the other adulterants often used, jeopardizing the quality.

AgNext is striving hard with its quality testing solutions to eliminate milk adulteration. It has taken steps to ensure that milk quality is preserved at both the dairy and household levels. The company has developed and commercialized a ready-to-use Milk adulteration test for detecting common milk adulterants. By evaluating the colours produced after adding test reagents to milk, the kit can identify the presence of Urea, Ammonia fertilizers, Nitrate fertilizers/Pond water, Starch and Cereal flours, Sucrose, Glucose, Salt, Neutralizers, and Hydrogen peroxide. Unskilled individuals with little to no experience can also use the kit with absolute ease. Real-time data is captured, resulting in untampered visibility of quality during procurement, transit, as well as storage.

Apart from the above, the digital records for the quality provided by AgNext with un-tampered data for quality and full spectrum traceability lead to better decision making for procurement.

Specx is the AI solution offered by AgNext that provides instantaneous, on-spot quality assessments of commodities, supporting businesses to procure better quality milk and other consumables at the right price and speed. Chemical assessment entails speedy assessment of chemical properties such as moisture, protein, ash, gluten etc., of the consumables under testing. Physical analysis of the quality includes the speedy evaluation of physical parameters like weevilled, shrivelled, broken, foreign matter etc., that might be present in the milk and other consumable articles. Lastly, ambient assessment helps in the monitoring of temperature and humidity level in the closed setting like cold stores & warehouses in real-time. All these food and Milk adulteration tests ultimately lead to lab benchmarked accuracy.

To know more about the digitized and AI-based food and milk adulteration testing solutions, you may visit the AgNext website.