Awareness Situation Regarding Fruit Juice Adulteration among the Public University Students of Bangladesh: A Case from University of Dhaka

Abstract

Food adulteration particularly fruit juice adulteration has been emanated a great concern for the consumers all across the country of Bangladesh as it bears some fatal diseases. Experts advocate that our future generation will be affected seriously for juice adulteration with vulnerable physical and mental growth. University of Dhaka is contemplated to be the premier public university in Bangladesh which is commonly distinguished as ‘Oxford of East’. We chose Dhaka University as our research site to assess the awareness level about fruit juice adulteration among the common students. To address this fruit juice problem properly and awareness situation, this research paper aims to disclose this problem properly by creating more knowledge and information for all kinds of consumers including students of the studied area. The findings of the paper show that Students of the Dhaka University students are very much vulnerable to fruit juice adulteration. Most of the students are not well aware of fruit juice adulteration and its impacts. Students usually do not ask for hygienic conditions of the fruit juice. This paper discloses the current scenario of fruit juice adulteration in Dhaka University campus. At the end there some recommendations have been assembled about the roles of the concerned authorities to eradicate this problem from Dhaka University areas in particular and from whole Bangladesh in general.