Agriculture Ministry has directed all states and union territories to conduct 500 random sampling of milk every month at village level for detecting adulteration particularly of edible oil, sucrose and detergents. <br/><br/>The direction were issued by the Secretary, Animal Husbandry, Dairy and Fisheries to all Chief Secretaries and Food Commissioners. <br/><br/>The drive will be started immediately and 50 thousand samples will be taken countrywide. <br/><br/>States have also been asked to install milk adulteration testing equipments at village level for detection of adulteration by various adulterants. <br/><br/>The Ministry said, assistance for this will be provided under the National Programme for Dairy Development. <br/><br/>Uttar Pradesh is being assisted to install 390 milk adulteration testing equipments in 2017-18. Other States are also being encouraged.