What the FDA Allows in Our Food

One of my latest reads has been the Eat This, Not That Supermarket Survival Guide. The beginning of the book addresses the quality of our food today. Warning: the information they share could make you sick.

The FDA limits the amount of rodent droppings and various other nasty items in food, but that limit is not zero. The regulations below are the limits the FDA set so that consumer's health will not be harmed.

Food item and Limit

• Canned pineapple- 20% moldy fruit
• Canned tomatoes- 5 fly eggs or 2 maggots per 500 grams
• Frozen broccoli- 60 mites per 100 grams
• Ground cinnamon- 400 insent fragments and 11 rodent hairs per 50 grams
• Peanut butter- 30 insect fragments or 1 rodent hair per 100 grams
• Popcorn- 1 rodent pellet in one sample or 2 rodent hairs per pound
• Potato Chips- 6% rotten potatoes

There's something that will keep you awake at night.