5. • Adulteration is defined as the admixture of a pure substance
with some
cheaper and low quality substance.
• It is done intentionally usually to make money.
• In costly feed ingredients like oil seed cakes and feeds of
animal origin like fishmeal, adulteration is done by spraying
urea in order to raise their protein content.
• However, sometimes brans, molasses are also added. Besides
urea, oilseed cakes are adulterated with husk, non edible
oilseed cakes.