• An adulterant is caused by the act of adulteration, a practice of secretly mixing a substance with another. Typical substances that are adulterated include...
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    DEA reported the adulterant was found in 82% of seizures. Levamisole adds bulk and weight to powdered cocaine (whereas other adulterants produce smaller...
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  • Antihelminthic (often used as an adulterant) 10.5% DMT Psychedelic 5.3% Lidocaine Local anaesthetic (often used as an adulterant) 5.3% Tramadol Opioid Analgesic...
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    a substance whose use is banned in sport. It is used as an adjuvant, adulterant, and diluent to street drugs such as cocaine and heroin. It is one of...
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  • this reason it is essential to use multiple different tests to show all adulterants. Counterfeit medications Drug checking Harm reduction TheAzo. "Marquis/Mecke/Mandellin...
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    apparatus. The assumption that tar has fewer adulterants and diluents is a misconception. The most common adulterant is lactose, which is added to tar via dissolving...
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    rate. The normal adulterants for profit are inactive sugars, usually mannitol, creatine, or glucose, so introducing active adulterants gives the illusion...
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    C28H52N2O4. It is a white crystalline powder. In 2024 it was detected as an adulterant in illicitly sold fentanyl in the United States. Its production involves...
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    The juice is used in the manufacture of fake port wine, and used as an adulterant to impart roughness to genuine port, into the 20th century. In rural Britain...
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    substances mimicking the appearance of crack to increase bulk. Use of toxic adulterants such as levamisole, a drug used to treat parasitic worm infections, has...
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    product of hepatic N-dealkylation, of MDMA (ecstasy). It is also a common adulterant of illicitly produced MDMA. MDA currently has no accepted medical use...
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    effects of barbiturates in a primate study. Diazepam has been found as an adulterant in heroin. Diazepam drug misuse can occur either through recreational...
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    Ordinal), but is no longer available. DMHA has also been found as an adulterant in sports supplements and is sold online as a designer drug. The presence...
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    December 2021. "CPG Sec 555.875 Water in Food Products (Ingredient or Adulterant)". U.S. Food and Drug Administration. 11 February 2020. Archived from...
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    black pepper and long pepper imported from India. It was also used as an adulterant, as reported in Pliny the Elder's Natural History: "pepper is adulterated...
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    to defraud buyers. Fake edible bird's nest or edible bird's nest with adulterants may be harmful to those who consume it. Hence, there is an urgent need...
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    Cocoa butter, also called theobroma oil, is a pale-yellow, edible fat extracted from the cocoa bean (Theobroma cacao). It is used to make chocolate, as...
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  • synthetic chemical compounds similar to sildenafil have been found as adulterants in many of these products. The FDA has warned consumers that any sexual...
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    2. Although illegal for food use, Metanil Yellow has been used as an adulterant in turmeric and pigeon pea based food products, particularly in India...
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    (2005). "Rapid and easy identification of Illicium verum Hook. f. and its adulterant Illicium anisatum Linn. by fluorescent microscopy and gas chromatography"...
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    composition of some of the solid lubricating greases, and is also used as an adulterant of other oils. The chief region of rosin production includes Indonesia...
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    (nephropathy), although it is not currently known if this is because of adulterants or infectious diseases The withdrawal syndrome from heroin may begin...
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    2016. Lead chromate, a bright yellow chemical compound, was found as an adulterant of turmeric in Bangladesh, where turmeric is used commonly in foods and...
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    tablet form, although this term may also include the presence of possible adulterants or diluents. The UK term "mandy" and the US term "molly" colloquially...
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    available. Freebasing also tends to remove water-soluble impurities and adulterants such as sugars (lactose, sucrose, glucose, mannitol, inositol), which...
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    Detroit, Michigan; and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. BTMPS was detected as an adulterant in illicitly sold fentanyl in the United States in 2024. Several large...
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    a theft case provided insights into the use of the pigment as a food adulterant in sausage roll production whereby the accused apprentice was taught to...
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  • cannabis, and PCP. These misconceptions include misinformation about adulterants or other black market issues, as well as alleged effects of the pure...
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    picture—Salamander in brandy appears to have been traditionally seen as an adulterant, one which caused ill health. It was also used as a term of slander. Jia...
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    buyers until the honey was liquefied. In modern times the most common adulterant became clear, almost-flavorless corn syrup; the adulterated mixture can...
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