Food adulteration is not new or unknown thing for the people and is now
one of the global threats for the mankind. The following chapter deals with some basics
related to the topic of book like definitions and explanations like food, food fraud
history of food adulteration and ends up with some brief description of Codex
Alimentarius. This chapter will increase the common understanding of the readers to
proceed in the next important chapters.
Keywords: Adulteration, Aesthetic adulteration, Codex Alimentarius, Economic
adulteration, Food, Food fraud, Food adulteration, Food safety, Hazardous
adulteration, History of adulteration, Safe food.
