economic adulteration

economic adulteration
The substitution of less expensive ingredients, or the diminution of the proportion of more expensive ingredients, so as to make the product, although not in itself deleterious, inferior to that which the consumer expects to receive when purchasing the product. Anno: 56 ALR2d 1 l32. The use of foreign and artificial ingredients as coloring matter in food to deceive or defraud the consuming public. 22 Am J1st Food § 3.

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