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Recent Examples of adulteration
This effort includes both the battle against criminal adulteration, as well as illnesses caused by a handful of infectious agents -- viral, parasitic, and bacterial.
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Thomas N. Thompson, Foreign Affairs, 14 Mar. 2012
Seven people are accused of criminal conspiracy, adulteration of food substances intended for marketing, fraud in public military supplies and adulteration of food for export, according to a memo sent out by the Carabinieri.
—Barbie Nadeau, CNN, 11 July 2024
Hartley connected his temperance and milk crusades in An Essay on Milk from 1842, arguing that milk produced in cities was impure not just because of its adulteration by contaminants like formaldehyde, but also because of its sourcing from urban swill sheds.
—Catherine Long, JSTOR Daily, 17 Jan. 2024
Surgical center personnel concluded that the incidents involving Kaspar and the teen suggested a pattern of intentional adulteration of IV bags used at the center, according to the complaint.
—Nicole Lopez, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 Apr. 2024
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Thomas N. Thompson, Foreign Affairs, 14 Mar. 2012
Seven people are accused of criminal conspiracy, adulteration of food substances intended for marketing, fraud in public military supplies and adulteration of food for export, according to a memo sent out by the Carabinieri.
—Barbie Nadeau, CNN, 11 July 2024
Hartley connected his temperance and milk crusades in An Essay on Milk from 1842, arguing that milk produced in cities was impure not just because of its adulteration by contaminants like formaldehyde, but also because of its sourcing from urban swill sheds.
—Catherine Long, JSTOR Daily, 17 Jan. 2024
Surgical center personnel concluded that the incidents involving Kaspar and the teen suggested a pattern of intentional adulteration of IV bags used at the center, according to the complaint.
—Nicole Lopez, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 Apr. 2024
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“Adulteration.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/adulteration. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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