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What are the effects of consuming adulterated food?

Adulteration is a serious issue which contaminants the food and affects its natural composition by addition or subtraction of any component in the food.

There are various bad effects of consuming adulterated food like- Diarrhoea, nausea, vomiting, fever, different kind of allergies, gastrointestinal disorders, kidney and liver failure etc.



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