0 the act of making food or drugs worse in quality by adding something to them:
The adulteration of poultry is considered a serious problem.
The presence of low levels of melamine in milk is not necessarily due to adulteration.
He was charged with one count of misbranding and adulteration of a drug.
He is particularly worried by the adulteration of Ecstasy tablets.
Her escape underscores the powers of cosmetic adulteration in a society that understands race as a visual category and ascribes racial significations of value.
Concerns surrounding these practices were initially connected to discussions on food adulteration and the fraudulent sale of sub-standard food items.
The limited capacity of the colonial state to intervene in the rubber market is most starkly illuminated by the practice of rubber adulteration.
The pending bill would broaden the definitions of, and put teeth into the penalties for, adulteration.
Nor was the risk of adulteration so obvious that only someone indifferent to the risk could have failed to notice it.
