Pasta Bugs: Why Are There Insects In American Food?

Vanity ^ | 07/24/2013 | jespasinthru

[jocon307]

“put all boxed or grain goods in the fridge”

Oh yes, I remember doing that.

There’s a crazy movie called, I think “Joe’s Apartment”. I never saw it, but I’ve heard it’s pretty amusing. About a guy and the many roaches he lives with. The bugs are animated or something.

[davius]

"sugar doesn’t need protection?"

From ants and hummingbirds, yes. Not from weevils.

[9YearLurker]

And if you grow it yourself, you ought to get used to a stray bug here or there that hung on to some leafy vegetable despite vigorous washing.

When did we become such wusses obsesses with an antiseptic life?

[ilovesarah2012]

How Many Insect Parts and Rodent Hairs are Allowed in Your Food?
More Than You Think ... and Maybe Than You Want to Know!
by www.SixWise.com

How about a little rat hair with your peanut butter? A fly head with your macaroni and cheese? Though it may sound disgusting, these things and other gross filth the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) calls “natural contaminants” are indeed allowed and present in your food.

Mouse Bread

Gross but true: A certain number of rodent hairs are allowed in the food you eat. (A whole mouse, however, is not.)

In fact, so common are these contaminants that the FDA has published a booklet detailing the so-called “Food Defect Action Levels,” which were needed, according to the FDA, “ ... because it is economically impractical to grow, harvest, or process raw products that are totally free of non-hazardous, naturally occurring, unavoidable defects.”

http://www.sixwise.com/newsletters/05/06/29/how_many_insect_parts_and_rodent_hairs_are_allowed_in_your_food.htm

[smokingfrog]

Chlorine gas. Nasty stuff!!

not recommended

[smoothsailing]

A peck! That’s alot of dirt! About 10-15 pounds depending on whether it’s wet or dry dirt.

I used to buy fresh oysters by the peck in a burlap bag at Christmas time. I swear there was a pound of mud in every bag!

B^)

[Faith65]

I found grain weevils in a couple new bags of Mothers Hubbard peanut butter cookies a few years back. I had just bought a few bags on sale at Christmas time from Petsmart and was shocked to see the bugs in them after we opened one up. I called MH and complained and they said that the weevils sometimes get in the bags in the manufacturing process. It was no big deal to them. But it can make a dog very sick.

I no longer buy cookies for our dogs- I make them homemade cookies every other week now.

[heylady]

“And if you grow it yourself, you ought to get used to a stray bug here or there that hung on to some leafy vegetable despite vigorous washing.”

I grew my own lettuce for the first time this year with great success UNTIL I found little green worms nibbling the leaves. I found even after washing the lettuce thoroughly I just couldn’t bring myself to eat any of it. Wound up tossing all the plants.

[9YearLurker]

City slicker!

;-)

[goldi]

And don’t forget rat hair in chocolate — yum!

[daniel1212]

You are a spoiled American. There are bugs in everything, in your canned good, in your frozen goods, in your processed foods but they’re usually really ground up and you don’t see them. Consumers complain if there are bugs and then complain if their food is sprayed.

This is true. Many Americans also often complain when its hot and when its cold, and express little appreciation when its neither, while just about outlawing ruggedness in males while wanting females in combat, and proclaim people are starving while refusing to eat some cooked pasta that has some bugs in it.