'Contaminant' means any substance not intentionally added to food which is present in such food as a result of the production (including operations carried out in crop husbandry, animal husbandry and veterinary medicine), manufacture, processing, preparation, treatment, packing, packaging, transport or holding of such food, or as a result of environmental contamination.
"Onesnaževalec" je vsaka snov, ki ni namerno dodana hrani in je v njej kot posledica proizvodnje (vključno s postopki v poljedelstvu, živinoreji in veterinarski medicini), izdelave, predelave, priprave, obdelave, predstavljanja, pakiranja, prevoza ali shranjevanja take hrane ali kot posledica onesnaženosti okolja.