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What is food adulteration?
Adulteration is a legal term used to describe the inclusion of a harmful substance in a food or the exclusion of a required substance from a food. For instance, the presence o…f E. coli O157:H7 in raw ground beef makes the beef adulterated - the E. coli is a harmful substance (bacteria) that had to be added to the beef at some point, usually by contamination with feces from the cow's intestines. The adulteration of food means the addition of something that isn't food into a food product, in order to be able to get more procuct to sell at less cost. A recent example was the addition of melamine into milk, by a factory in China. The melamine resembled milk protein closely enough that the milk was able to pass inspection, yet it also proved to be toxic, causing a number of deaths. Adding sawdust to ground meat would be another example. (MORE)
