Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A substance that adulterates.
- adjective Serving to adulterate.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Adulterating; used in adulterating.
- noun A substance used for adulterating.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun That which is used to adulterate anything.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun That which
adulterates ; or reduces thepurity of.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective making impure or corrupt by adding extraneous materials
- noun any substance that lessens the purity or effectiveness of a substance
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Examples
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In food-safety regulation, there's a concept called "adulterant", a substance that by law may not be distributed in food.
Wired Top Stories Maryn McKenna 2011
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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.
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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.
The Seattle Times 2011
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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 killed four children.
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In food-safety regulation, there's a concept called "adulterant", a substance that by law may not be distributed in food.
Wired Top Stories Maryn McKenna 2011
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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 killed four children.
The Seattle Times 2011
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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.
SFGate: Top News Stories By MARY CLARE JALONICK 2011
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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 killed four children.
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Despite an early attempt to ban the substance in 1911 - skeptical scientists argued it was an "adulterant" that changed the makeup of food - saccharin grew in popularity, and was used to sweeten foods during sugar rationings in World Wars I and II.
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The intact/non-intact distinction was first announced in a July 19, 1999 FSIS policy statement that the meat industry had long pushed as a way of deeming O157 an "adulterant" only in ground beef and other non-intact meat not "further processed" in a federally-inspected facility.
Marler Blog 2009
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