insanitary
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The product “appears to have been prepared, packed, or held under insanitary conditions whereby it may have become contaminated,” the FDA wrote in its announcement.
From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2025
A subsequent inspection of the company’s facility by the Food and Drug Administration uncovered listeria in two locations as well as other insanitary conditions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2024
Family Dollar faced one misdemeanor count of causing FDA-regulated products to become adulterated while being held under insanitary conditions at the facility, the U.S.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 26, 2024
Even prior to the latest crackdown, an estimated 2,500 migrants were sleeping outdoors in squalid, insanitary conditions in Krajina.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 30, 2020
They lived in the same one-roomed hut with their families, few chickens, litter of pigs, or with a cow possibly called Crumbocke—most dreadful and insanitary!
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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