Detection of Adulterants in Selected Spices Sold in Garo Hills, Meghalaya

摘要

West Garo Hills is one of the important districts in Meghalaya with a population of around 643291, which constitutes 21.68% ofMeghalaya’s population. The food products especially the grocery is mainly imported from outside and the food quality had hardly beenchecked. Hence, it becomes important to check the quality of food items in the district so the study entitled “Detection of Adulterants inSelected Spices Sold in Garo Hills, Meghalaya,” was done to know the status of the quality of different food items sold in the district. For this,spices from the local market of three different areas from Garo Hills, Meghalaya had been selected and all the selected food items wereunbranded and the ones sold loose. The detection tests were performed as per the manual prescribed by FSSAI and both chemical and physicalanalyses were done. The results obtained showed that out of the selected 12 items, 8 items were adulterated.