adulteration

Example Sentences

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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

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

A law preventing unadvertised adulteration was eventually passed in 1875 in the form of The Sale of Food and Drugs Act.

From BBC • Oct. 30, 2023

I really fancy if any one were to open up a trade in Kru Coast rocks, adulteration would be found in the third shipment.

From West African studies by Kingsley, Mary Henrietta