Below is a quotation about Food Standards in the USA from businessinsider.com:
"In the US, producers adhere to a "Defect Levels Handbook," which sets out the maximum number of foreign bodies like maggots, insect fragments and mould that can be in food products before they are put on the market.
"For example, US producers are allowed to include up to 30 insect fragments in a 100-gram jar of peanut butter; as well as 11 rodent hairs in a 25-gram container of paprika; or 3 milligrams of mammalian excreta (typically rat or mouse excrement) per each pound of ginger."
Do you believe it?
Trump tells May to abandon 'unwarranted' food standards for Brexit trade deal
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Hello Josef, I am Valorosa1 from Italy and I'm very glad to tell you that into all the European Union there are rules that obliges producers of food to show in the label of each product they are ready to export from their firms into Europe or other markets all the ingredients in order of quantity, quality and how much we can find in their products but they also are obliged to indicate all the addictives that they used to produce something.
The main rules in health and security for consumers of food are these: European Union act 1333/2008 amd 1129/2011. So that you found online in businessinsider.com isn't credible for everyone of us and you know that also reporters and journalists could be wrong when they write or say something in their work....
That's the main reason for which I always read labels: if three or more of the ingredients aren't natural or biological I don't buy anything for me. Best wishes to you and I hope to hear again from you soon.
But the real problem is elsewhere. Things can be allowed, there can be tolerances for many different unpleasant things. But it should not mean that it's a standard. If people get worried of things being one or other negative ways. It means, that something is wrong somewhere else.. Maybe there's some much bigger and much uglier maggot hidden, which is more difficult to notice because of it's gigantic body.
I'm not happy, because usually, when there are some tolerances, allowing something in some negative, or unfortunate way for consumer, then, there are people who take advantage of that...
really mary!
maggots and insects... But don't we eat what it comes from the butt of a hen or the boobs of a cow? Not to mention fish's eggs, snails, shrimps and all that seafood that are like worms and instects from the sea. Maggots and insects are just animals = natural proteins.
I'd be more worried for all the chemicals that food contain nowadays, such as the amount of arsenic that can be found in any kind of rice (yes, arsenic, one of the world's most toxic poison) or the ammonia used for Burger chains to turn 'inedible' meat into burgers. Here, basically, they take a meat that would be sold in the cheapest way for dogs and after 'cleaning' that meat with ammonium hydroxide (an anti-microbial agent) is given to human beings... So it makes sense that you can eat a burger for only 1 or 2€ when u're being poisoned with something worse than dog's food.
@Dara - I see you slipped the double May in there :) Nice!
No wonder the Americans are so keen to palm their FoodAid off on the Venezuelans^^
I don't eat maggots if I find them inside of my porridge. I leave them to the edge of my plate, but.. It hasn't stopped me to finish my food. But I don't like them.
It's free protein. If I haven't paid from them then I should not eat them. ;)
Yes.. I don't care about those things, as far they are not poisonous bugs. Also for rat's excrements, if it's bread, or any kind of heated food. All the bacteria and viruses are killed by heat. It does nothing bad to you.
I will speak honestly about my own personal experience , in my small kitchen . I have noticed that some kinds of corn flour used for making Arabian sweets , if it is stored for more than 6th month . I see small insects inside the plastic bag ,which , indicates that there were small unseen eggs before . The same thing happens with flour I use to make bread after long storage . One of my friends advised me to freeze it . However , my mom told me that they used to see these maggots and eat the bread , a 100 year ago in Arabia because of hunger . This insect or maggot has a name in arabic , but I don't know what do people call it in English .
I think there is no free insects food at all , even if we don't see them
Dear Mr. Essberger, hello, I have learned in this world to believe the unbelievable. May may refuse what the American president's offer. I guess it is for our own good to eat and close the other eye from those tiny things in our food. Oh, I forgot to add, we have a saying during eating (step on smaller things). An article to be considered!
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