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Recent Examples of adulterant The sudden and almost simultaneous appearance of a new adulterant in U.S. street opioids from the East Coast to the West Coast is rare. Fernando Montero, The Conversation, 6 Mar. 2025 Others point to changes in the drug supply itself — variations in adulterants and potency can affect the rate of drug deaths. Josh Katz, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2025 This bill would have these dyes classified as adulterants, which requires manufacturers to meet further regulations. Anne Michaud, Hartford Courant, 4 Nov. 2024 The practice of adulterating honey is well known, and historically adulterants such as ash and potato flour have been used. Daniel Matthews, Fortune Europe, 5 Aug. 2024 This is a notorious adulterant of spices used to artificially bolster their color and weight. Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 9 Jan. 2024 The 2017 study highlighted the reason that lead chromate is used as an adulterant. Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 9 Jan. 2024 The street supply of most drugs is now contaminated with fentanyl, as well as xylazine, and many other deadly adulterants. Peter Grinspoon, Time, 23 Aug. 2023 Samples of about one-third of the medications were later tested at a laboratory with a mass spectrometer, which helped confirm initial results and identify other adulterants — including MDMA and caffeine. Connor Sheets, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for adulterant
Noun
  • Issues ranged from spoilage and chemical concerns to product damage and foreign material contamination.
    Jenna Anderson, Health, 14 Mar. 2025
  • The agency has previously taken action against benzene contamination in other personal-care products, including sunscreens, dry shampoos and hand sanitizers.
    Faisal Kutty, Newsweek, 11 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Women are thought of as contaminants in the heya and arm candy outside it; the sponsors exert a baleful commercial pressure on the fighters.
    Jesse Green, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2025
  • Days earlier, the first significant rains since May sent contaminants surging into the ocean.
    Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 2 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Further evidence shows that racial minority groups exposed to pollutants suffer from poor maternal health groups more than others in the United States.
    Tracy J. Wholf, CBS News, 14 Mar. 2025
  • In the wake of the environmental and women’s movements, citizen activists, mothers of children with birth defects and women with breast cancer became alarmed about the threat of cancer linked to pesticides or industrial pollutants.
    Amy Lauren Fairchild, The Conversation, 11 Mar. 2025

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“Adulterant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/adulterant. Accessed 19 Mar. 2025.

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