In a bid to arrest the frequent and recurring incidents of milk adulteration in Maharashtra, the State’s Food and Drug Administration has planned a massive digitisation initiative for end-to-end traceability of milk. We will have access to this data and the data of the milch animals in that region which is uploaded on NDLM. Maharashtra FDA has, over the last few months, cracked down against milk adulteration, has banned analogue paneer in the State for a year, has banned the sale of junk foods in and around schools. | Pulse MaharashtraHow adulteration happensExplaining the systemic issues which lead to milk adulteration, he said, “When the farmer milks the animal, the milk has to reach the chilling centre within two hours. It is a practice that milk dairies collect only once in a day.