Mysore Grahakara Parishat has been drawing the attention of City Corporation over the last several years to the menace of food adulteration. Last week it collected tea samples from shops in 13 localities of Mysore and found that all the samples were adulterated with artificial colour. Adding colour to tea powder is illegal; drinking such tea can cause cancer and other diseases. It is deplorable that Mysore City Corporation is blind to rampant food adulteration, even though MGP is highlighting the problem again and again. To warn MCC that it should wake up to this critical problem, otherwise, MGP will intensify its fight, a delegation of MGP members met the Mayor yesterday. Prof. A. Ramalingam, Smt. Sreemathi Hariprasad, Sri M. Jayaram, Ms. K. Ranjitha, Ms. R. Vasantha and Sri. B. Basavaraju were in the delegation. As a result, a special meeting was arranged this morning with MGP representatives and Corporation officials. It was demonstrated to the officials that the samples collected by MGP were indeed adulterated. When the Mayor expressed shock, the MCC Health Officer, Dr. Nagaraj gave an assurance that steps would be taken within three days and the problem of tea adulteration solved.