Eat Food Not Ink

Many places use newspapers  to wrap the food material. The adulteration of foods is a chief issue not just for emerging nations but also for the complete globe who has adapted vending prepared and ready to eat foods at sites like bicycle, carts, streets, semi-mobile carts having no cover, especially near the dirt and trash of jam-packed towns, railroad track, bus depots, school buildings, Dhabas as well as fast-food street sellers. Approximately in India, more than 3 million individuals are unswervingly entangled in roadside food businesses. Roadside foods offer an income for lakhs of persons in a country with reasonable values to the middle-income & lower-income classes. Yet the newspaper poses a huge risk

The ink consists of several bioactive materials with recognized negative fitness properties. Aromatic hydrocarbons and Naphthylamine are the chief issues. The ink utilized in the newspaper had been described to originate lung cancer amongst laborers uncovered to ink haze through rotary letterpress technology of newspaper printing as per an experiment done in Manchester, England. The cancer-causing ability of news-paper ink was associated with the solvent excerpts of carbon black, containing polyaromatic hydrocarbons such as benzo(a)pyrene. Benzo(a)pyrene elements get adsorbed on the carbon black particles. Bladder cancer is one more prominent illness related to dye and ink. Maximum illnesses, counting cancers, have numerous etiology agents; though, direct contact to 4-Aminobiphenyl, Benzidine, and Naphthylamine has been recognized as the key risk issue bladder-cancer with this danger actuality relative to the duration of contact.

Factors that change the quantity and proportion of migration.

  1. Indirect or Direct exposure of food with the packing material.
  2. Features of the material in interacting with foods like permeability, width of plastics etc.
  3. Characteristics of mobile substances such as molecular size, vapor pressure, structure,polarity, etc.
  4. Amount of initial Migrant substances in the packing material.
  5. Exposure duration and atmospheric temperature.
  6. Ingredients of food-packing material.

 

In summary, there is absolutely no doubt that no food should ever come in contact with the ink used in printing.  Through a government order in the month of December 2018 FSSAI banned the use of newspaper for wrapping food. In a survey then commissioned by the central authority it was found that food was found to be contaminated even with heavy metals such as cadmium and lead. The call to action for everyone is to refuse taking any food that is wrapped in newspaper/magazines/printed material and has come in contact with it. Here is a short video message indicating for the same.

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Along with this we are running a series of activities to mark the World Food Safety Day 2022. Join us and help spread the message that “Safer Food, means Better Health”

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