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Cover Story

Eating Away Our Health

One of the biggest casualties of urbanisation in this country has been the quality of life, a large part of which includes good health. With a culture of malpractice seeping into every sector and level it is hardly surprising that it has reached the most important of our basic needs--food. With ineffective, outdated laws, lack of enforcement and institutional corruption there is an overwhelming indifference to consumer rights and public health. Dishonest food manufacturers and traders are having a free reign in the market adding harmful substances, selling contaminated food or tampering with the original content of the food item. The government has various bodies to control food quality. But why aren't they doing their job?