adulteration

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The honour has cast a global spotlight on a fragile cottage industry battling labour shortages, rampant adulteration and dwindling sap supplies.

From Barron's • Feb. 10, 2026

The pesticide adulteration rate matched that of products from California’s legal market, which mandates screening for 66 pesticides but ignores scores of other compounds The Times found.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 19, 2024

Apimondia - the International Federation of Beekeepers’ Associations - said in a statement that the change was "necessitated by the inability to have honey fully tested for adulteration".

From BBC • Nov. 30, 2024

This is known as "food adulteration," and products with known or suspected adulteration are refused entry into the U.S.

From Salon • Nov. 27, 2024

In the regions from Sierra Leone to the Gold Coast, you have, it is true, not much white influence or adulteration, mainly because of the rock-reefed shore being dangerous to navigators.

From West African studies by Kingsley, Mary Henrietta