Can this really be true? I just read this in the comment section of a blog I read every now and again - it was in response to the writer coming home from the store with expired food:
"The FDA allows all kinds of crap in our food.
In fact, the average person eats one to two pounds of insects each year, and without knowing it.
The allowable amount of rat hair and fecal matter in peanut butter is .1%
.3% of all ocean perch fillets contain at least one parasite in a pus pocket.
Every 8 ounces of orange juice can contain either one maggot or five fly eggs.
One chocolate bar can contain up to 80 bug pieces and other debris."
I was already nauseous today and this is going to seal the deal. Especially since I just had "a few" mini Twix bars from our Halloween stash. Perhaps this will cure my chocolate cravings? SICK.
3 comments:
hogwash. I don't believe a word of it. Our American food system is the best in the world. Not perfect but safe, secure, healthy. Eat natural foods -- fruit, vegetables, lean meats, low fat cheeses, and such and RELAX.
Use your head and enjoy what we have.
Dad - :-)
Sorry Dad!...Optimism this time doesn't outdue the facts! Not for the faint of heart...
FDA Allowable Filth In Food Products
Posted on November 21st, 2007
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is allowed to establish maximum levels of natural or unavoidable defects in foods for human use that present no health hazard. These “Food Defect Action Levels” listed below are set on this premise–that they pose no inherent hazard to health. That doesn’t make them any less disgusting…
The FDA set these action levels because it is economically impractical to grow, harvest, or process raw products that are totally free of non-hazardous, naturally occurring, unavoidable defects. Products harmful to consumers are subject to regulatory action whether or not they exceed the action levels. You can view their entire list of filth levels here.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Asparagus, canned or frozen
10% by count of spears or pieces are infested with 6 or more attached asparagus beetle eggs and/or sacs
Berries
Average of 4 or more larvae per 500 grams
OR
Average of 10 or more whole insects or equivalent per 500 grams (excluding thrips, aphids and mites)
Broccoli, frozen
Average of 60 or more aphids and/or thrips and/or mites per 100 grams
Cinnamon bark, whole
Average of 5% or more pieces by weight are moldy
Average of 5% or more pieces by weight are insect-infested
Average of 1 mg or more mammalian excreta per pound
Cherries
Average of 5% or more pieces are rejects due to maggots
Chocolate and chocolate liquor
Average is 60 or more insect fragments per 100 grams when 6 100-gram subsamples are examined
OR
Average is 1 or more rodent hairs per 100 grams in 6 100-gram subsamples examined
OR
Any 1 subsample contains 3 or more rodent hairs
Macaroni and noodle products
Average of 225 insect fragments or more per 225 grams in 6 or more subsamples
Average of 4.5 rodent hairs or more per 225 grams in 6 or more subsamples
Mushrooms, canned and dried
Average of over 20 or more maggots of any size per 100 grams of drained mushrooms and proportionate liquid
Average of 5 or more maggots 2 mm or longer per 100 grams of drained mushrooms and proportionate liquid
Average of 75 mites per 100 grams drained mushrooms and proportionate liquid
Average of more than 10% of mushrooms are decomposed
Peanut butter
Average of 30 or more insect fragments per 100 grams
Average of 1 or more rodent hairs per 100 grams
Peanuts, shelled
Average of 10% or more peanuts by count are rejects (insect- infested, moldy, rancid, otherwise decomposed, and dirty)
Pepper, ground
Average of 475 or more insect fragments per 50 grams
Average of 2 or more rodent hairs per 50 grams
Popcorn
1 or more rodent excreta pellets are found in 1 or more subsamples, and 1 or more rodent hairs are found in 2 or more other subsamples
2 or more rodent hairs per pound and rodent hair is found in 50% or more of the subsamples
20 or more gnawed grains per pound and rodent hair is found in 50% or more of the subsamples
Potato chips
Average of 6% or more pieces by weight contain rot
Raisins, natural & golden
Average of 10 subsamples is 5% or more, by count, moldy raisins
Average of 40 mg or more of sand and grit per 100 grams of natural or golden bleached raisins
Spinach, canned or frozen
Average of 50 or more aphids, thrips and/or mites per 100 grams
2 or more 3 mm or longer larvae and/or larval fragments or spinach worms (caterpillars) whose aggregate length exceeds 12 mm are present in 24 pounds
Tomatoes, canned
Average of 10 or more fly eggs per 500 grams
5 or more fly eggs and 1 or more maggots per 500 grams
2 or more maggots per 500 grams
Tomato juice
Average of 10 or more fly eggs per 100 grams
5 or more fly eggs and 1 or more maggots per 100 grams
2 or more maggots per 100 grams, in a minimum of 12 subsamples
I can't even read that whole article because I will get sick all over my keyboard. GROSS!
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