Something Yukky About Chocolate

javawizard said:

The FDA considers chocolate acceptable for public consumption as long
as there are less than 60 microscopic insect fragments per 100 grams
(four ounces, or approximately one candy bar). - fromwww.strange-but-true.info

heh. See their allowances on flour. Atkins, here we come!

maxine in ri

On Fri, 06 Jul 2007 11:11:21 -0700, javawizard <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

The FDA considers chocolate acceptable for public consumption as long
as there are less than 60 microscopic insect fragments per 100 grams
(four ounces, or approximately one candy bar). - from www.strange-but-true.info

Check out the FDA's FOOD DEFECT ACTION LEVELS if you want your eyes
opened.

http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/dalbook.html

In article <[email hidden]>, padams2700
@bellsouth.net says...

Quoted message said:

On Fri, 06 Jul 2007 11:11:21 -0700, javawizard <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

The FDA considers chocolate acceptable for public consumption as long
as there are less than 60 microscopic insect fragments per 100 grams
(four ounces, or approximately one candy bar). - from www.strange-but-true.info

Check out the FDA's FOOD DEFECT ACTION LEVELS if you want your eyes
opened.

http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/dalbook.html

Nothing really surprising. Wherever there's food there are insects and
rodents. Insects you can't really do much about but rodents can be
controlled. It just takes a clowder of hungry cats.

Adam said:

On Fri, 06 Jul 2007 11:11:21 -0700, javawizard <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

The FDA considers chocolate acceptable for public consumption as long
as there are less than 60 microscopic insect fragments per 100 grams
(four ounces, or approximately one candy bar). - from www.strange-but-true.info

Check out the FDA's FOOD DEFECT ACTION LEVELS if you want your eyes
opened.

http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/dalbook.html

Old news, hardly significant. Perhaps you'd just prefer to buy from
those who aren't obligated to be upfront about it?

I'd hate to see the defect tolerances for Chinese food producers.

Zippy P said:

I'd hate to see the defect tolerances for Chinese food producers.

Probably rapidly approaching zero and a bullet in the head.

The head of the Health Canada equivalent has already received a death
sentence.

John Kane, Kingston ON Canada

On Fri, 06 Jul 2007 11:11:21 -0700, javawizard <[email hidden]>
rummaged among random neurons and opined:

Quoted message said:

The FDA considers chocolate acceptable for public consumption as long
as there are less than 60 microscopic insect fragments per 100 grams
(four ounces, or approximately one candy bar). - from www.strange-but-true.info

Take a peek at other things, such as ketchup. You would be astonished
at what you're actually ingesting in common grocery items. I figure
that I have lived to ripe old middle-age and none of it has killed me
yet, so it isn't likely to do so.

Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd

--
"If the soup had been as hot as the claret, if the claret had been as
old as the bird, and if the bird's breasts had been as full as the
waitress's, it would have been a very good dinner."

-- Duncan Hines

To reply, replace "spaminator" with "cox"

On Jul 6, 11:05 pm, Terry Pulliam Burd <[email hidden]>
wrote:
-but-true.info

Quoted message said:

Take a peek at other things, such as ketchup. You would be astonished
at what you're actually ingesting in common grocery items. I figure
that I have lived to ripe old middle-age and none of it has killed me
yet, so it isn't likely to do so.

Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd

I've read that John Kerry's wife doesn't eat Heinz ketchup. Hmmm.....
I wonder if she eats other brands.
Dee Dee

I doubt it man.. the Chinese gov't wants profits and tax revenue. I'd never
buy something from china that I have to ingest (other than tea, which I
sometimes wonder about).

They'll only change if the rest of the world starts harping on 'em.

javawizard said:

The FDA considers chocolate acceptable for public consumption as long
as there are less than 60 microscopic insect fragments per 100 grams
(four ounces, or approximately one candy bar). - from www.strange-but-true.info

What the FDA allows and what the average company's QA
department allow are two different things.

The [censored] you get out of the vending machine at work
ain't no Valrhona.

--Blair