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(word processor parameters LM=8, RM=75, TM=2, BM=2)
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Taken from KeelyNet BBS (214) 324-3501
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Sponsored by Vangard Sciences
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PO BOX 1031
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Mesquite, TX 75150
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October 17, 1990
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listed on KeelyNet as FOOD1.ZIP
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Government Food Contamination Standards
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Robert Choate, a government nutrition consultant, once stated that
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there was more protein in the INSECTS in some breakfast cereal than
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in the cereals themselves.
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Current regulations include :
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As many as 10% of the beans in a sample of coffe can be infested
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or damaged by insects.
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250 Milliliters (about a cup) of orange juice is allowed to
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contain ten fruit fly eggs, but only two maggots.
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Apple butter can have 5 insects per 100 grams (about 25 in a 16
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ounce jar), but little insects like mites, aphids, thrips, and
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scale insects don't count toward that limit. The cleanest apples
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are sold whole, and the wormy ones are made into apple butter.
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Wheat can average "9 milligrams of rodent excreta pellets and/or
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pellet fragments per kilogram.
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Peanut butter can have 50 insect fragments per 100 grams (as many
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as 620 in the 40 ounce jar of Skippy's Super Chunk) or one rodent
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hair per 100 grams.
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Curry powder can contain 100 insect fragments per 25 grams. Most
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spices are rife with insects before they reach the market; the
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FDA acknowledges there isn't much that American spice importers
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can do about the matter. (But "no live insects are permitted,"
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an American Spice Trade Association spokesman insisted.)
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100 grams of tomato juice can contain two DROSOPHILA maggots,
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five eggs and one maggot, or ten eggs and no maggot.
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Frozen Brussels sprouts can have 40 aphids or thrips per 100
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grams, that amounts to about 200 vermin in a 1 pound package.
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"Foreign matter" as applied to food contaminants can also include
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metal shavings or lubricants from the canning or processing
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equipment.
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Sufficient quantities of metal have been found in foods to create an
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industry for metal detectors expressly designed for food production
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lines.
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Lead shot is often found in raisins as a result of hunters firing
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into game hiding in the vineyards.
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