Sentence examples for the samples were contaminated from inspiring English sources

A fifth of the samples were contaminated by salmonella, a leading cause of food poisoning.

The F.D.A. has already gathered about 700 samples, mostly from recalled pet food, and found that 394 of the samples were contaminated with melamine, an industrial chemical used in plastics and fertilizer.

Of the chicken breasts, wings and thighs the monitors tested, 9 percent of the samples were contaminated with a variety of salmonella that resists antibiotics, while 26 percent contained antibiotic-resistant campylobacter.

The bacteriological data (TC, FC, and FS) showed that almost all of the samples were contaminated.

The results of FPT revealed that up to 17.5% of the samples were contaminated with the antibiotic.

All the samples were contaminated with S. aureus.

Assuming that in screening campaigns only a limited number of the samples are contaminated with the analytes, the proposed approach allows the reliable identification of the contaminated specimens and the approximate estimation of their concentrations, with a 50% reduction in the total number of processed samples.

The samples are contaminated by faecal coliform in both pre-monsoon and post-monsoon.

Contamination of CSF by serum of plasma is a possible issue in CSF peptide profiling, because if one or more of the samples is contaminated by serum or plasma, the comparison of CSF peptide profiles is inevitably skewed by the higher total protein concentrations in serum or plasma [16].

Volchenboum et al (2009) hypothesised that genome-wide studies of tumour samples may under report genetic changes if the samples are contaminated with normal stromal tissue or heterogeneous tumour elements containing diploid DNA.

This issue could be confounded if one or more of the samples was "contaminated" by native plant methyl-binding domains, not removed by DNA purification, that impeded access and binding of MBD2-Fc.