How to Use adulterated in a Sentence

adulterated

adjective

• Blue Bell agreed to plead guilty to two misdemeanor counts of distributing adulterated ice cream products and pay a $17.25 million fine.
  — Bloomberg.com, 5 May 2020
• Horowitz also gave the animals a choice between their adulterated urine, and the adulterating smell on its own.
  — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 17 Aug. 2017
• Due to its exorbitant price, saffron makers started to sell adulterated forms that are ground to a fine powder, and then mixed with other pigments and spices.
  — Nik Sharma, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Jan. 2018
• But, some experts seem to agree that the symptoms and circumstances fit the indicators of deaths caused by adulterated alcohol.
  — Monica H. Swahn, Quartz, 17 July 2019
• They are considered adulterated because of the lack of quality control measures, FDA says.
  — AJC.com, 14 Jan. 2018
• The group’s fear is that without any oversight, unscrupulous producers will sell adulterated products that make people sick.
  — oregonlive, 14 Feb. 2020
• The law banned the sale of adulterated meat, set standard sanitary conditions, and required that the USDA inspect all livestock before and after they were killed and processed for human consumption.
  — Kim Kelly, The New Republic, 14 Oct. 2019
• In a plea agreement with federal prosecutors, Blue Bell agreed to plead guilty to two misdemeanor counts of distributing adulterated ice cream products and pay a criminal fine of $17.25 million.
  — Shannon Liao, CNN, 2 May 2020
• Relatives have raised the possibility that the deaths may have been caused by adulterated alcohol or misused pesticides.
  — NBC News, 30 June 2019
• McNeil-PPC pleaded guilty in 2015 to introducing adulterated infants' and children's over-the-counter drugs into interstate commerce.
  — Lisa Schencker, chicagotribune.com, 24 May 2017
• DeCoster and his son, Peter DeCoster, each pleaded guilty to one count of introducing adulterated food into interstate commerce.
  — Kristine Phillips, Philly.com, 12 May 2018
• Maybe so, but there are indications that the fashion establishment may be operating from more adulterated motives.
  — New York Times, 29 Oct. 2019
• Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson says no deaths have been reported due to the adulterated heroin.
  — CBS News, 11 July 2017
• Patients who need these medicines deserve the product the Food and Drug Administration approved, whether that’s the reference biologic or a biosimilar, not an adulterated or inadequate version of it.
  — Leah Christl, STAT, 13 Feb. 2020
• The system helped to identify adulterated hazelnuts associated with a record price jump, Verhaelen's team reported in the December issue of Food Control.
  — Lucas Laursen, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2018
• Alcohol that has special ingredients added is usually described as adulterated alcohol.
  — Monica H. Swahn, Quartz, 17 July 2019

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