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Some Common Myths Thought to be True - Myth 123
Myth 123: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration Protects Our Food
The insect fragments are classified as an aesthetic problem. The Food Defect
Action Levels states that these contaminants "pose no inherent hazard to
health."
The Food Defect Action Levels: Levels of natural or unavoidable defects in
foods that present no health hazards for humans is a publication of the United
States Food and Drug Administration's Center for Food Safety and Applied
Nutrition detailing acceptable levels of food contamination from sources
such as maggots, thrips, insect fragments, "foreign matter," mold, rodent
hairs, and insect and mammalian feces.
The publication details the acceptable amounts of contaminants on a per food
basis, listing both the defect source (pre-harvest infection, processing
infestation, processing contamination, etc.) and significance (aesthetic,
potential health hazard, mouth/tooth injury, etc.).
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