Adulteration
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
The act of corrupting or debasing. The term is generally applied to the act of mixing up with food or drink intended to be sold other matters of an inferior quality, and usually of a more or less deleterious quality.
Grosvenor v. Duffy, 121 Mich. 220, 80 N. W. 19; Com. v. Hufnal, 185 Pa. 376, 39 Atl. 1052; People v. West, 44 Hun (N. Y.) 162.