Mmm Good...Mmm Good

In the wake of the recent peanuts/salmonella scare, it's good to know that the Food and Drug Administration at least tries to closely regulate the amount of filth allowable in our canned and processed food. For example, the FDA allows:

*No more than 30 insect fragments in every 100 grams (3.5 ounces) of peanut butter;

*No more than 35 fruit fly eggs in eight ounces of boxed raisins;

*No more than 11 rodent hairs in every 1.8 ounces of ground cinammon;

*No more than five fruit fly maggots in every 100 grams (3.5 ounces) of canned mushrooms;

*No more than five milligrams of rodent droppings in a pound of sesame seeds.

Oh, noes, not baked chicken coated with sesame seeds and rodent droppings again!

Source: The Brunching Shuttlecocks.

An unillustrated and slightly shorter version of this post appeared at Omnem Movere Lapidem, on August 30, 2005.