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New kit to test milk

Kumar Sambhav I TNN

Mumbai: If you are tired of your vendor selling adulterated milk, here is a way to catch him red-handed.

The Consumer Guidance Society of India (CGSI) released a ‘doit-yourself-milk-testing-kit’ on Saturday to examine adulteration of milk at home. It is part of a project, which also invites complaints from citizens against misleading advertisements and fake-degreeholder medical practitioners.

Honorary secretary of CGSI Dr M S Kamath announced that the milk-testing kit will be available for Rs 30 at their office as well as a few selected places across the city. Every kit can be used to examine five samples of milk and the procedure is also mentioned on a document provided with it.

“These tests can be easily conducted. However, the chemicals in the kit have to be handled with care,’’ said Sitaram Dixit, managing committee member, CGSI.

The CGSI also invited complaints from citizens against misleading advertisements and those doctors who have fake degrees or are using misleading qualifications on their boards.