By Nuzair Ahmed Jamro,
It is true that Pure and fresh edible items are blessing for Human Life. Fresh and quality Milk is
one of the important supplements for healthy life. It is as important as water for human life. The
hidden benefits of natural Milk cannot be compensated with any drink or edible items.
It is regret to apprise that Pakistan has been facing severe issues in all walks of life.
Adulteration in edible items is not excluded. It is quite unfortunate to say that adulterated milk
having life threatening chemicals, for increasing quantity and viscosity of it, has become a fate
of common people in Pakistan especially in urban areas of Sindh Province. It includes
Shikarpur, Khairpur, Jacobabad,Sukkur and other small cities.
It is woefully that Cattle firm’s owners and Milk Sellers in Small cities like Shikarpur use health
hazard Chemicals in natural milk in order to maximize their lucrative business by increasing
the volume of Milk using adulterated means. Some of the major adulterants in milk having
serious adverse health effect are urea, formalin, detergents, ammonium sulphate, boric acid,
caustic soda, benzoic acid, salicylic acid, hydrogen peroxide, sugars and melamine.
It has become a lucrative business with small investment of having only 2, 3 Cows to full fill the
needs of a large chunk of society by producing more quantity of Milk through food adulteration
means. It is life threatening practice that leads to incurable diseases like Cancer, diabetic,
pancreatitis, malfunctioning of organs, issues related to the heart, Poor eyesight, kidney issues
and death.
33 million adults in Pakistan are living with diabetes. A 70% increase since 2019. This means
that Pakistan now has the third highest number of people living with diabetes in the world.
Vomiting, dizziness, stomach pain and chronic indigestion issues in most of households are
common ramifications of using such health hazard milk in everyday use such as tea and drinks.
Lack of access to fresh milk, a natural supplement, in interior cities of Sindh and Punjab is the
reason behind the alarming increase in such life threatening diseases. Natural milk is blessing
in disguise that is a complete diet for healthy life. It boosts the Immunity system, strengthens
the bones and muscles by supplying the calcium and delaying the aging process by keeping
human young.
It is sadden to learn that peoples of developing country like Pakistan, which is already lagging
behind in delivering health services are deprived of pure milk, a biggest natural gift for human
being. World Health Organization stated that Pakistan produces 140 million litres of milk
annually, while 500 million litres of it is sold.
In Pakistan, now days, it has become a day dream for common people to get milk in its pure and
natural form. Adulterated milk is dangerous as it may be toxic and lack nutrients essential for
growth and development.
To Sum up, it is need of hour that the government chalk out effective strategies to ensure the
access of fresh and quality Milk to people in every corner of state so that common man can
enjoy the healthy life by having natural milk. Lactometer is used to measure milk viscosity. Pure
milk will have greater viscosity than water. The Food Quality Department must ensure the lab
tests of Milk from Milk vendors using lactometer and other efficient and modern techniques on
monthly basis in order to facilitate every citizen by delivering quality in Milk. There would be
mechanism of registration and renewal of license of Milk sellers based on milk Quality. Media
which is fourth pillar of state should be used as tool to bring awareness among masses about
the checking of Milk. This panacea would win their hearts and soul and ensure happy and
prosperous life of common man in Pakistan.
