Research proposal on food adulteration in dhaka city

1. Welcome to my Presentation
“A Study Proposal on Food Adulteration and
its Impact”
Presented by:
AD Ujjal Kumar Paul (AV- 173)
ADC, BD Ansar & VDP, Khulna. &
Trainee Officer of 34th BCS Officers’ Basic Training Course.

2. Presentation Outline
Research Background
Literature Review
Statement of the Problem
Purpose of the Study
Data collection & analysis
Significance of the study
Time frame
Budget

4. Research Background
Developing country like Bangladesh sets with
thousand of problems. Food adulteration is
one of the acute problems of them.
Adulteration in food is normally present in its
most crude form; prohibited substances are
either added or partly or wholly substituted.
Ignorance and unfair market behavior may
endanger consumer health and misleading
can lead to poisoning.

5. Literature Review
• I have reviewed a number of relevant literatures
to get clear idea
• I have studied different literatures from online
journals, thesis papers, articles and other
relevant literatures through internet.
• Narayan Sharma and Suresh Joshi has said –
“The problems of food adulteration are more
significant in the developing than developed
world and it was estimated that more than 100
million people suffering from food
adulteration.”

6. Continuing………………………
 A report was prepared by the National Food Safety
Laboratory (NFSL) under the Institute of Public Health
(IPH) after conducting adulteration tests between 1995
and 2011 on different food commodities regularly
found in the market like milk powder, species like
turmeric, pepper, mustard, edible oil and palm oil.
 NFSL chief analyst and deputy director of the IPH, Dr
Md Abdur Razzak said,
“Around 40 to 54 per cent of our daily consumed foods
including fish, meat, milk, fruits, vegetables, rice,
pulses, oil, salt and baby foods examined by the
national food safety laboratory were found adulterated
and poisonous.”
 The food safety laboratory report recommended
upgrading of pure food amendment act 2005 and pure
food rules of 1967.

8. Statement of the Problem
 Supply is less than demand
 To cut down the product costs to meet the market
competition.
 To earn more profits.
 Shortage of authentic ingredients at affordable prices.
 To preserve food for longer period
 Lack of the knowledge of impact of food adulteration in
seller and buyer
 Lack of knowledge about the danger effect of chemical
used in food adulteration
 Lack of government help to protect food adulteration and
create awareness in public
 No protection of importing food adulterant chemical

9. Purpose of the Study
• To know the present status of food adulteration in Bangladesh.
• To find out the limitations of our law system in providing
support to control food adulteration.
• To find out the limitations of our law system in controlling
import of chemical that adulterate food.
• To find which food are mostly adulterated and which food are
less adulterated or not adulterated.
• How much the sellers are benefited.
• Whether they are intentionally or ignorantly adulterating food.
• To identify their socio-economic conditions.
• To identify the social, economical cost is paid.
• To investigate strategies for the prevention of food adulteration.
• To recommend how the problem can be uprooted?

10. Data collection & analysis
• I will use both qualitative and quantitative data.
• I will use both primary and secondary data to
reduce duplication and get a better result.
• I will use survey method of data collection
• I will use close ended questions.
• There will also focus group discussion.
• After completion of the data collection, SPSS
software will be used for data entry and
analysis.
• This study will be based on survey method.

11. Significance of the study
• This research will help to find the most adulterated
food, how they are being adulterated, and how this
problem can be solved.
• The increasing number of food producers and the
outstanding amount of import foodstuffs enables
the producers to mislead and cheat consumers.
• To differentiate those who take advantage of legal
rules from the ones who commit food adulteration
is very difficult.
• Ignorance and unfair market behavior may
endanger consumer health and misleading can lead
to poisoning.

12. Time frame
Selection of surveyors 1 week
Training of the surveyors 1 week
Designing of the questionnaire 15 days
Conduct of interview 1 month
Analysis of data 1 month
Writing of the final report 1 month
Total Time = 4 months

13. Budget
Items Description Total
Data Collection
a. Accommodation
For 30 days * BDT 1000 * 7
persons 2,10,000
a. Travel For 30day * BDT 5120 1,53,600
a. Local Transportation For 7 persons * 30000 2,10,000
Focus Group Discussion For 60 * 10000 6,00,000
Data Entry and Desk work For 30 days * 1000 * 7 2,10,000
Dissemination In Dhaka (any hotel) 30,000
Sub total 14,53,600
Remuneration (optional) 120 working day * 7 *1000 9,10,000
Grand Total 23,23,600
In words: Twenty three Lac twenty three thousand Six Hundred Taka Only.

14. References…..
1. Bangladesh Journal of Scientific and Industrial Research
2. www.banglajol.info
3. www.sos-arsenic.net/english/environment/food-
poison.html
4. www.equitybd.org
5. BSTI. (2000) Bangladesh Standard and Testing Institution,
Dhaka.
6. http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-
details.php?nid=198096
7. www.journalofdairyscience.org
8. Wikipedia

16. Question