Post by raphael on Feb 16, 2009 13:11:56 GMT -5
I bet most of you guyals didn't know the FDA allows a certain portion of "yummies" into our food we eat. Yum yum I wonder if they stick to the tum and never mind about the bum!!!
In its (falsely) reassuringly subtitled booklet 'The Food Defect Action Levels: Levels of Natural or Unavoidable Defects in Foods That Present No Health Hazards for Humans,' the F.D.A.'s Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition establishes acceptable levels of such 'defects' for a range of foods products, from allspice to peanut butter.
Among the booklet's list of allowable defects are 'insect filth,' 'rodent filth' (both hair and excreta pellets), 'mold,' 'insects,' 'mammalian excreta,' 'rot,' 'insects and larvae' (which is to say, maggots), 'insects and mites,' 'insects and insect eggs,' 'drosophila fly,' 'sand and grit,' 'parasites,' 'mildew' and 'foreign matter' (which includes 'objectionable' items like 'sticks, stones, burlap bagging, cigarette butts, etc.').
Tomato juice, for example, may average '10 or more fly eggs per 100 grams [the equivalent of a small juice glass] or five or more fly eggs and one or more maggots.' Tomato paste and other pizza sauces are allowed a denser infestation — 30 or more fly eggs per 100 grams or 15 or more fly eggs and one or more maggots per 100 grams.
Canned mushrooms may have 'over 20 or more maggots of any size per 100 grams of drained mushrooms and proportionate liquid' or 'five or more maggots two millimeters or longer per 100 grams of drained mushrooms and proportionate liquid' or an 'average of 75 mites' before provoking action by the F.D.A.
The sauerkraut on your hot dog may average up to 50 thrips. And when washing down those tiny, slender, winged bugs with a sip of beer, you might consider that just 10 grams of hops could have as many as 2,500 plant lice. Yum.
www.nytimes.com/2009/02/13/opinion/13levy.html?_r=1&em
In its (falsely) reassuringly subtitled booklet 'The Food Defect Action Levels: Levels of Natural or Unavoidable Defects in Foods That Present No Health Hazards for Humans,' the F.D.A.'s Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition establishes acceptable levels of such 'defects' for a range of foods products, from allspice to peanut butter.
Among the booklet's list of allowable defects are 'insect filth,' 'rodent filth' (both hair and excreta pellets), 'mold,' 'insects,' 'mammalian excreta,' 'rot,' 'insects and larvae' (which is to say, maggots), 'insects and mites,' 'insects and insect eggs,' 'drosophila fly,' 'sand and grit,' 'parasites,' 'mildew' and 'foreign matter' (which includes 'objectionable' items like 'sticks, stones, burlap bagging, cigarette butts, etc.').
Tomato juice, for example, may average '10 or more fly eggs per 100 grams [the equivalent of a small juice glass] or five or more fly eggs and one or more maggots.' Tomato paste and other pizza sauces are allowed a denser infestation — 30 or more fly eggs per 100 grams or 15 or more fly eggs and one or more maggots per 100 grams.
Canned mushrooms may have 'over 20 or more maggots of any size per 100 grams of drained mushrooms and proportionate liquid' or 'five or more maggots two millimeters or longer per 100 grams of drained mushrooms and proportionate liquid' or an 'average of 75 mites' before provoking action by the F.D.A.
The sauerkraut on your hot dog may average up to 50 thrips. And when washing down those tiny, slender, winged bugs with a sip of beer, you might consider that just 10 grams of hops could have as many as 2,500 plant lice. Yum.
www.nytimes.com/2009/02/13/opinion/13levy.html?_r=1&em