Traders are playing with the lives of the people by serving adulterated and chemically mixed milk on the pretext of serving ‘pure milk’
People of the town can notice milk vendors filling tap and borewell water in the milk cans and adding packaged milk sachets of various dairies by adding milk powder and other chemicals to show it as pure milk
KARIMNAGAR, APRIL 03, 2026: Chemical milk, popularly termed as “synthetic milk” (albeit White Poison), is the invention of devil-minded mafia of certain milk traders.
Several make-shift milk vendors have arrived in various parts of the town, promising to serve the ‘pure milk’ and packing them in plastic covers and selling them at the large congregation of people during the morning hours, where people come out for walking at Ambedkar stadium, SRR college and other locations.
Ironically, the majority of the traders are not selling the pure and safest milk to their customers. It is alleged that they are using chemicals such as urea, caustic soda, refined oil (cheap cooking oil) and commonly used detergents in the preparation of synthetic milk. Detergents are added to emulsify and dissolve the oil in water, giving the frothy solution the characteristic white colour of milk.
Refined oil is used as a substitute for milk fat. Caustic soda is added to the blended mixture of chemical and natural milk to neutralise the effect of increased acidity, thereby preventing it from turning sour during transport.
Urea/sugar is added for levelling the contents of solid-not-fat (SNF) as are present in the natural milk.
Chemical or synthetic milk looks like natural milk as far physical appearance is concerned, but it is totally different in taste. It does not have any nutritional value. Contrarily, it is a health hazard and harmful if consumed. The use of chemical or synthetic milk has been found to have cancerous effects on human beings. Urea and caustic soda are very harmful to the heart, liver and kidneys. The presence of urea overburdens the kidneys as they overwork to remove urea from the body. Caustic soda, which contains sodium, acts as a slow poison for those suffering from hypertension and heart ailments. Caustic soda also deprives the body from utilising Lysine, an essential amino acid in milk, which is required by growing babies.
Such an artificial milk is harmful for all, but is more dangerous for pregnant women, the foetus and persons who are already having heart and kidney problems.
What is natural milk?
Natural milk is an emulsion of fat in a watery solution of sugar and mineral salts and proteins in colloidal suspensions. Chief constituents of natural (buffalo) milk are generally in the following proportion.
Water 84.00%
Fat 7.00 %
Protein 4.30%
Carbohydrates 4.70%
The protein, carbohydrates or salts of milk are termed as “milk solids-not-fat” or solids-not-fat. Dry matter is commonly designated as total solids. Natural milk has no pronounced taste but is slightly sweet. Any pronounced taste is abnormal.
Freshly drawn milk has a characteristic, but not very pronounced odour which is quite volatile and which practically disappears when the milk is exposed to the air. Other odours are abnormal.
If fresh milk is tested with litmus paper then blue litmus paper turns red and red litmus paper turns blue. When phenolphthalein is used as an indicator, normal fresh milk shows an acid reaction and it titrated with a standard alkali solution, the acidity will be found to vary from 0.10 to 0.14% calculated as lactic acid.
Fresh milk has a hydrogen-ion concentration of approximately pH 6.8, which indicates that it is really somewhat on the acidic side of neutrality. Natural milk appears unchanged by heating until a point near the boiling point is reached, when a tough film forms on the surface. Prolonged boiling results in a brown shade of colour and a change in the taste.
