adulterant

释义

1. 摻雜物，混雜物

   With regard to the presence of opium in ale, it appears to form a very deleterious adulterant;

   关于麦芽酒中鸦片的存在，它似乎形成了一种非常有害的掺假物；

   1817年 5月1日，「Collectanea Dietetica」，收錄於The Monthly Magazine，43卷，297期，320頁：

   Potato-flour is the waste of potato after the starch and alcohol have been extracted; it has no more food value than so much wood, and as its use as a food adulterant is a penal offence in Europe, thousands of tons of it are shipped to America every year.

   马铃薯粉是用马铃薯提取淀粉和酒精后的废物；它的食用价值并不比木材高，而且由于在欧洲将其用作食品掺杂剂是一种刑事犯罪，因此每年有数千吨的马铃薯粉被运往美国。

   1906，Upton Sinclair，第11章，收錄於The Jungle，New York：Grosset & Dunlap，139頁：

   Once upon a time not so long ago, most of those chemical additives would have been deemed “adulterants” by the Food and Drug Administration。But after an all-out campaign of lobbying by the baking industry in the 1950s, the FDA liberalized its “standard of identity” for bread, permitting bakeries to add dozens of new additives to what had previously been a simple two- or three-ingredient food.

   曾经，这些化学添加剂大部分都会被食品药品监督管理局视为“掺假品” 。但经过20世纪50年代烘焙行业的全面游说活动后，FDA放宽了面包的“身份标准”，允许面包店在以前只有简单的两种或三种成分的产品中添加数十种新添加剂。

   2013，Michael Pollan，Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation，「Part 3, p. 268」：