NOUN
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any substance that lessens the purity or effectiveness of a substance
it is necessary to remove the adulterants before use
ADJECTIVE
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making impure or corrupt by adding extraneous materials
the adulterating effect of extraneous materials
How To Use adulterant In A Sentence
- In food-safety regulation, there's a concept called "adulterant", a substance that by law may not be distributed in food. Wired Top Stories
- The State of California's Department of Health Services leading man Dr. Richard Ko briefly explains California's laboratory analysis that searches for heavy metals, chemicals and other adulterants in patent formulas.
- With new adulterants being developed at an alarming rate, it has become increasingly difficult to keep up with the development of methods to detect these products.
- Except flour or rice powder, all the other adulterants are health hazardous and cause irreparable damage to our system when eaten at regular intervals for a long period of time.
- The E. coli O157:H7 strain was classified by USDA in 1994 as an "adulterant" - meaning more testing and swifter recalls if it is found - after an outbreak of that strain the year before at Jack in the Box fast-food restaurants that killed four children. StarTribune.com rss feed
- Often highly noxious adulterants were used: cayenne pepper, which easily loses its red colour, was tinted with cinnabar, an extremely poisonous mercury compound.
- The sources of poisoning were identified as adulterants or erroneous substitutes.
- Not only were they illegally manufacturing and supplying drugs in pubs for social consumption, they were diluting them with adulterants deceiving the people they supplied to increase their profits.
- While the substance that degrades or lowers the quality of food is an adulterant.
- The adulterants ranged from water in the case of milk, cheaper varieties of oils in the case of edible oils to colours in the case of rice and tea.