![]() ‘Clearly the Tories have some very unpleasant surprises for UK dinner tables if they have their way with a fast-track trade deal with the United States,' Bill Esterson, Labour MP and Shadow Trade Minister, told Business Insider. MRiYn8FuMT- LBC October 1, 2018īusiness Insider reported that MPs are ‘worried’ that a US-UK deal overseen by Brexiteers could lead to such instances of contaminated food. And if we align ourselves with the US, that would mean eating 1-2lbs of flies and maggots every year. ‘It means that Americans at the moment are on average are likely to ingest between one and two pounds, for imperial fans, pounds of flies, maggots and mites each year without knowing it.’Īs Brexiteers say we should reduce food regulation to reduce prices, James O'Brien explains what that would actually mean. If you need a little bit of help with the measurements, 100g of be a small glass of tomato juice. ‘Fifteen fly eggs and one maggot per 100g is allowed for tomato paste and other pizza sauces. ‘Tomato juice is good, you can have up to five fly eggs and one maggot per 100g of tomato juice,’ he added. Up to one maggot or five fly eggs per 250ml of canned fruit juice is also allowed under American food regulations. He said: ‘The FDA allows up to 4% of a can of cherries to have maggots, 5% if they are brined or Maraschino. The European Union does not allow any foreign bodies in food products.įollowing Jacob Rees-Mogg’s statement that a reduction in regulation would see lower food prices, LBC Radio host James O’Brien described the current food landscape in the US. The regulations allow for an ‘average of more than 75 insect fragments per 25 grams’ of paprika, as well as ‘ an average of more than 11 rodent hairs’.Ĭhocolate lovers may want to turn away as 100 grams of chocolate is allowed to contain 60 insect fragments, as well as one rodent hair. I’m less sold on how rodent hairs could feasibly end up in peanut butter without there being a rodent infestation in the peanut butter factory? If anyone has ideas about how rodent hairs end up in peanut butter during processing, put them in the comments.A post-Brexit deal with the United States may see rat hair and insect legs appear in British food ![]() I can see how, given the scale of this operation, some small amount of insect parts can end up in the finished product. Here’s a video of how peanut butter is processed industrially. Here’s how peanut butter is made industrially From what I could tell, the FDA intends one rodent hair per 100 grams of peanut butter to be the maximum average (meaning no more than one hair) but their literature’s wording seems to allow for more than one rodent hair per 100 grams of peanut butter. It seems they should word it as “a maximum average of one rodent hair per…” but maybe they have a reason for it. ‘m not sure what the FDA means by an average of one or more here. The FDA’s “Foods Defect Handbook” section “AOAC 968.35” states that an “Average of 1 or more rodent hair per 100 grams” is permissible in peanut butter. In addition to allowing some insect parts in your peanut butter, the FDA also allows one rodent hair per 100 grams of peanut butter. Did you say rodent hair? What else does the FDA allow peanut butter to contain? So, organic peanut butter is also allowed the same amount of insect parts and rodent hair as non-organic peanut butter, which is an average of 30 parts of ‘insect filth’ and one rodent hair per 100 grams of peanut butter. ![]() The FDA’s “Food Defect Handbook” pertains to organic foods too. Does organic peanut butter have insects in it too? Food scientists explain some of the seemingly generous FDA insect allowances for different foods.
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