Twinkie Resurrection: Day Five, Permissible Rodent Hairs

We’ll gloss over why and how RJ has a mobile mass spectrometer so we can bring you a partial accounting of the FDA’s list of permissible contaminants (from Wikipedia);

Canned sweet corn:    Insect larvae (corn ear worms or corn borers).    2 or more 3 mm or longer larvae, cast skins, larval or cast skin fragments, the aggregate length of insects or insect parts exceeds 12 mm in 24 pounds

Canned citrus fruit juices : Insects and insect eggs. 5 or more Drosophila and other fly eggs per 250 ml or 1 or more maggots per 250 ml

Canned apricots:  Insect filth.  Average of 2% or more by count has been damaged or infected by insects.

Chocolate and chocolate liquor: Insect filth. Average is 60 or more insect fragments per 100 grams (when 6 100 g subsamples are examined). Rodent filth. Average is 1 or more rodent hairs per 100 grams in 6 100-gram subsamples examined OR
any 1 subsample contains 3 or more rodent hairs.

Peanut butter: Insect filth. Average of 30 or more insect fragments per 100 grams. Rodent filth. Average of 1 or more rodent hairs per 100 grams. Grit. Gritty taste and water insoluble inorganic residue is more than 25 mg per 100 grams.

Wheat flour:  Insect filth. Average of 150 or more insect fragments per 100 grams.Rodent filth. Average of 1 or more rodent hairs per 50 grams

Frozen broccoli:  Insects and mites. Average of 60 or more aphids and/or thrips and/or mites per 100 grams.

Ground thyme: Insect filth.  Average of 925 or more insect fragments per 10 grams. Mammalian excreta.
Average of 1 mg or more mammalian excreta per pound after processing.

Ground cinnamon. Insect filth. Average of 80 or more insect fragments per 10 gram.  Rodent filth. Average of 11 or more rodent hairs per 50 grams.

Yum.