Adulterated food refers to impure, unsafe, or unwholesome; food however, the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, the Federal Meat Inspection Act, the Poultry Products Inspection Act, and the Egg Products Inspection Act has made another definition of the term adulteres which will be applied to the foods each of these laws regulates.
Products found to be adulterated under these laws cannot enter into commerce for human food use.
Ref: 86425/2006-09-14