yup, had a gal friend once whose summer job it was to do lab things like count insect legs and body fragments in mmmm-mmmm-good soup.
I once bit down on what I thought was a chicken bone in a sandwich I had made out of some canned chicken.
Chicken bones aren’t gray and covered in hair, rats tail.
That was the second sandwich when I found it.
Up until that I thought the bologna sandwiches I’d been eating 3 times a day were bad.
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.”