Lok Sabha Question No. 2097 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2023-03-14
Subject: Quality of Milk
Ministry: FISHERIES, ANIMAL HUSBANDRY AND DAIRYING
Asked by: Janardan Singh Sigriwal

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF FISHERIES, ANIMAL HUSBANDRY AND DAIRYING DEPARTMENT OF ANIMAL HUSBANDRY AND DAIRYING LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.2097 TO BE ANSWERED ON 14 TH  MARCH, 2023

## QUALITY OF MILK

## 2097. SHRI JANARDAN SINGH SIGRIWAL:

## WILL THE MINISTER OF FISHERIES, ANIMAL HUSBANDRY AND DAIRYING मत्स्यपालन , पशुपालन और डेयरी  मंत्री

be pleased to state:

- (a) whether the Government has conducted any study on the quality of milk sold by leading dairy manufacturers in the country;
- (b) if so, the details thereof;
- (c) whether the Government has conducted regular tests on these manufacturers to check quality of their produce and if so, the details thereof;
- (d) the details of parameters to decide if the quality of milk or other dairy products are good and penalties  imposed  in  case  anyone  is  found  producing  adulterated  or  poor  quality dairy product; and
- (e) the  details  of  other  steps  taken  by  the  Government  to  boost  milk  production  in  the country?

## ANSWER

## THE MINISTER FOR FISHERIES, ANIMAL HUSBANDRY AND DAIRYING (SHRI PARSHOTTAM RUPALA)

- (a) Yes Sir. Food Safety & Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has conducted nation -wide surveillance on the quality of milk in the years 2011, 2016, 2018 and 2022.

## (b) National Milk Survey 2011 and 2016:

FSSAI had carried out milk surveys in 2011 and 2016 with sample size of 1791 and 1663 respectively. These surveys were informative.

## National Milk Quality Survey, 2018:

FSSAI conducted the National Milk Safety and Quality Survey in 2018 to identify hotspots of  food  safety  non-compliances  and  milk  adulteration,  so  that  more  intensified  efforts  for surveillance and enforcement could be taken up in such areas. The survey was carried out in 1103  cities  covering  all  States  and  Union  territories  and  a  total  of  6432  samples  were collected both from the organized (retailers and processors) as well as the unorganized (local dairy farms, milk vendors and milk mandis). Samples were analyzed for presence of various adulterants  /  food  safety  parameters.  The  survey  results  showed  that  156  samples  were containing  maltodextrin,  78  samples  were  containing  sugar  and  other  12  samples  were showing presence of adulterants like hydrogen peroxide (6 samples), detergents (3 samples), urea (2 samples) and neutralizers (1 sample) while none of the samples showed presence of any other adulterant including cellulose, glucose, starch and vegetable oil.

## Milk Survey 2022:

FSSAI conducted the Surveillance on Milk to assess the presence of antibiotics, pesticide residues & heavy metals as per the limits given in FSSR and to identify the hotspots to get the  location  wise  data  of  milk  containing  antibiotics,  pesticides  &  heavy  metals  in concentration more than the prescribed limit in FSSR. 133 locations across 12 States were selected for sampling which included 10 States where the lumpy skin disease was prevalent and  2  States  viz.  Tamil  Nadu  and  Karnataka  were  treated  as  control  where  there  was  no reported  outbreak  of  lumpy  skin  disease.    Out  of  798  Milk  samples;  654  samples  were drawn from 10 States having prevalence of LSD and 144 samples were drawn from 2 States as  control.  394  samples  were of  pasteurized packed samples and 404 unpasteurized (raw) loose samples were collected from the milk collection centre, chilling centre  and point of sale. The surveillance revealed that out of the 798 samples, 21 were found non-compliant. 3 samples were found to be unsafe while 18 packed samples were found to be misbranded.

- (c) Surveillance  of  Food  Business  Operators  including  ones  engaged  with  milk  and  milk products is conducted regularly through intensive surveillance drives by the States/UTs as per  their  surveillance  plans.  In  case  any  substance  is  found  which  makes  milk  unsafe  for consumption, penal action has been initiated against the defaulting Food Business Operators (FBOs) by the Food Safety Officers of States/UTs as per the provisions of FSS Act, 2006, Rules and Regulations made thereunder.
- (d) The standards of milk are specified in sub-regulation 2.1.2 of Food Safety and Standards (Food Product Standards and Food Additives) Regulations, 2011.The details of enforcement samples of milk analyzed, found non-conforming and action taken for 2019-20, 2020-21 & 2021-22, are attached as Annexure.
- (e) The Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying is implementing following Schemes to boost milk production in the country:
- i. Rashtriya Gokul Mission
- ii. Livestock Health and Disease Control
- iii. National Animal Disease Control Programme
- iv. National Programme for Dairy Development
- v. Dairy processing and Infrastructure Development Fund
- vi. Supporting  Dairy  Cooperative  and  Farmer  Producer  Organizations  engaged  in dairy activities
- vii. Animal Husbandry Infrastructure Development Fund(AHIDF)

## Annexure

The  details  of  enforcement  samples  of  milk  analyzed,  found  non-conforming  and  penalties imposed during the year 2019-20, 2020-21 and 2021-22.

| Financial Year   |   No. of Samples analysed |   No. of samples found non- conforming |   No. of cases launched (Civil/Criminal) |   No. of Convictions | Penalty (inRs. )   |
|------------------|---------------------------|----------------------------------------|------------------------------------------|----------------------|--------------------|
| 2019-20          |                     12538 |                                   4779 |                                     4561 |                  688 | 9,05,85,125        |
| 2020-21          |                      9717 |                                   3399 |                                     3082 |                  524 | 6,62,12,595        |
| 2021-22          |                     11371 |                                   3882 |                                     3729 |                 1842 | 6,05,84,550        |

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