adulterated goods
Contaminated commercial products
Adulterated goods are products that have been degraded by adding inferior, impure, or unauthorized substances.
The term appears most often in food and drug regulation, where adulteration means contaminating or diluting products in ways that compromise safety or quality: The factory was shut down for selling adulterated goods.
Goods may be adulterated to cut costs, increase weight, or deceive buyers about contents.
- counterfeitFraudulent imitation
- fakeNot the real thing
- fake brandCounterfeit product name
- knockoffUnauthorized replica product
- shamFraudulent imitation
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