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- GRAPEVINE, Page 23Natural (Yuck!) Ingredients
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- By DAVID ELLIS/Reported by Sidney Urquhart
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- Americans have gone gaga for natural foods, but do they
- really know what they're getting? Some answers can be found in
- the FDA's updated Food Defect Action Levels list, which
- indicates limits for "natural or unavoidable" substances in
- processed food. While people might blanch at eating insects and
- their excreta, many entomologists insist that the only harm is
- psychological. Some even contend that the government should
- allow more bugs in food so that crops can be grown with fewer
- pesticides.
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- FOOD LIMIT
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- TOMATOES An average of two maggots per 500 g
- (or 17 1/2-oz. can).
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- GOLDEN RAISINS 35 fruit fly eggs per 8 oz.
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- POTATO CHIPS Average of 6% of pieces, by weight,
- showing rot.
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- GREEN COFFEE BEANS One live insect in each of two
- containers or two dead bugs per five
- containers.
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- CHOCOLATE One rodent hair per 100 g (one large
- candy bar).
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- PEACHES 3% moldy or wormy, by count (frozen or
- canned).
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- MUSHROOMS 20 maggots per 100 g (3.5-oz. can).
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- WHOLE PEPPER 1% mammalian excreta per lb., on
- average.
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