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- <title>
- Oct. 08, 1990: Natural (Yuck!) Ingredients
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Oct. 08, 1990 Do We Care About Our Kids?
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- GRAPEVINE, Page 23
- Natural (Yuck!) Ingredients
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>By DAVID ELLIS/Reported by Sidney Urquhart
- </p>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
- <p> FOOD LIMIT
- </p>
- <p> TOMATOES An average of two maggots per 500 g
- (or 17 1/2-oz. can).
- </p>
- <p> GOLDEN RAISINS 35 fruit fly eggs per 8 oz.
- </p>
- <p> POTATO CHIPS Average of 6% of pieces, by weight,
- showing rot.
- </p>
- <p> GREEN COFFEE BEANS One live insect in each of two
- containers or two dead bugs per five
- containers.
- </p>
- <p> CHOCOLATE One rodent hair per 100 g (one large
- candy bar).
- </p>
- <p> PEACHES 3% moldy or wormy, by count (frozen or
- canned).
- </p>
- <p> MUSHROOMS 20 maggots per 100 g (3.5-oz. can).
- </p>
- <p> WHOLE PEPPER 1% mammalian excreta per lb., on
- average.
- </p>
-
- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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