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adulterant

NOUN
  1. any substance that lessens the purity or effectiveness of a substance
    it is necessary to remove the adulterants before use
ADJECTIVE
  1. 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.
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