adulteration
Example Sentences
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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
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
This is known as "food adulteration," and products with known or suspected adulteration are refused entry into the U.S.
From Salon
On the face of it, it appeared like a matter of food adulteration - something that authorities in India routinely grapple with.
From BBC
A law preventing unadvertised adulteration was eventually passed in 1875 in the form of The Sale of Food and Drugs Act.
From BBC
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