adulteration

The letter said: "Decisions against Real Madrid have reached a level of manipulation and adulteration of the competition that can no longer be ignored."

The pesticide adulteration rate matched that of products from California’s legal market, which mandates screening for 66 pesticides but ignores scores of other compounds The Times found.

Apimondia - the International Federation of Beekeepers’ Associations - said in a statement that the change was "necessitated by the inability to have honey fully tested for adulteration".

This is known as "food adulteration," and products with known or suspected adulteration are refused entry into the U.S.

On the face of it, it appeared like a matter of food adulteration - something that authorities in India routinely grapple with.