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Your Chocolate is Full of Insects and Rodent Hair
asylum.com — According to the FDA, the average 100 gram chocolate bar contains 60 separate pieces of insect -- and one rodent hair.
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- benroy, on 01/30/2008, -0/+21Can't we avoid the costly production costs and potential insect ingestion by using cloud-seeding to induce Chocolate Rain?
- scooterbaga, on 01/30/2008, -0/+1You just blew my mind...
- nepawoods, on 01/31/2008, -0/+4TOTALLY INACCURATE!
Article states that "according to the FDA" (with a link) "the average 100 gram chocolate bar contains 60 separate pieces of insect -- and one rodent hair."
But ... the FDA piece doesn't say that. Not at all. http://www.fda.gov/ora/compliance_ref/cpg/cpgfod/c ...
The FDA piece lists criteria for seizure and citation. Chocolate with an average of 60 insect pieces, or 1 rodent hair, per 100 gram sample (over 6 samples) is subject to seizure and citation. They're not saying that's the average.
- plasma25, on 01/30/2008, -0/+9extra nutrients!
- sanman, on 01/31/2008, -0/+2do insects or mouse hairs contain trans-fats?
because then we might have to ban them
- sanman, on 01/31/2008, -0/+2do insects or mouse hairs contain trans-fats?
- maxyRO, on 01/30/2008, -0/+2spitting the piece of dark chocolate I was eating and diggin it.
- PierceNBoy, on 01/30/2008, -0/+6mmmm. Protein.
- jphicks, on 01/30/2008, -0/+13Now, if the insect parts and rodent hairs were laying on TOP of the chocolate, it might give me pause. Repeat, pause. Because I would just have to scrape them off.
- GIMAD2008, on 01/30/2008, -2/+1Eeewww, I had heard this before and I try not to think about it.
- Y0tsuya, on 01/30/2008, -0/+4Insect parts are in everything you eat, from the food processing factory to the local restaurant to your own kitchen. If that grosses you out then you shouldn't think about it.
- brainstastegood, on 01/30/2008, -0/+4I just wrote a really great entry about how there was a worm (meal worm?) in my hot cocoa packet of swiss miss - with all the right suspence, but then I clicked the wrong button and POOF went my entry. So let me just tell you that I am scarred for life and will never purchase packets of swiss miss hot coaca again. Probably not nestle either. Now I only use real cocoa and sugar.
Biting into a clump of cocoa - but realizing it was a worm - NOT FUN.- Error601, on 01/30/2008, -0/+4You're just as likely to have insects in that sugar or cocoa. I found a whole nest of moth worms in a really old bag of flour. It's kind of freaky when your flour starts to wiggle.
- adamrgolf, on 01/31/2008, -0/+2http://youtube.com/watch?v=nr3eDTRCSxQ
- Error601, on 01/30/2008, -0/+4You're just as likely to have insects in that sugar or cocoa. I found a whole nest of moth worms in a really old bag of flour. It's kind of freaky when your flour starts to wiggle.
- InfodivaMLIS, on 01/30/2008, -5/+1oh dam!!!! No See's Candy Today...... YUCK!!!!
- fluidfoundation, on 01/30/2008, -0/+8I thought it was raisins...
- Dalogi, on 01/30/2008, -0/+3I've seriously just spat out my Cadbury's Creme Egg. I was enjoying that as well.
- darkchild82, on 01/30/2008, -0/+4Sorry, (I like Creme eggs too)
- Dalogi, on 01/30/2008, -0/+1No worries. It's a great article. LOL!
- chingy1788, on 01/31/2008, -0/+2now you know what the creme is made of
bug doody
- darkchild82, on 01/30/2008, -0/+4Sorry, (I like Creme eggs too)
- gr33k, on 01/30/2008, -1/+2Isn't the FDA the governing body that approves products for distribution to the general public? like I mean if the FDA knows of all this how do they allow it to keep going on? they must have deep pockets cause they aren't shutting down those who distribute mouse ***** and insect ***** to the general public
- Error601, on 01/30/2008, -0/+1Because it's not avoidable.
- Y0tsuya, on 01/30/2008, -1/+2There's no way to prevent this. Insects are everywhere. Just because they wash the raw products from the field does not mean insects are removed or others introduced later on. Usually they're too small to be seen by the processors, and larger ones are ground-up in the processing plants with the raw ingredients. Just so you know, insects parts are in your flour, sugar, and other kitchen pantry items. They also crawl up your nostrils and if you open your mouth when sleeping, they crawl down the hatch. But you don't notice because they're not visible to the naked eye. Am I giving you nightmares yet?
- tempfd, on 01/31/2008, -0/+0What is it--100 to 200 million insects for every human on earth? You're going to eat your fair share of them no matter what. Not like the FDA could or would do anything about it, seeing as how they're fine with approving prescription drugs that'll ***** you up faster than eating an insect ever could.
- mghwom1, on 01/30/2008, -1/+2Some stay dry while others feel the pain.
- chicoer2001, on 01/30/2008, -0/+3Bugs put the crunch in Crunch Bar.
- mortigon, on 01/30/2008, -0/+3more chocolate for me
=D - neiltc13, on 01/30/2008, -3/+2FDA? Why do you people not say what FDA this is referring to?
- Ouze, on 01/31/2008, -0/+1It stands for Flies, Droppings & Assorted, dumbass. Everyone knows that.
- nonsequitor, on 01/30/2008, -0/+2Just in time for Valentine's Day. Anyone else hear about the price of chocolate being raised recently to capitalize on Valentine's Day chocolate purchases?
- arcooke, on 01/31/2008, -0/+1That's nothing new. They double and triple the prices of flowers for V day.
Just another corporate holiday. The whole idea (as TV teaches us) is to shower your significant other with gifts, jewelry, dinner, flowers, etc.. money is the only motive behind that. Be original, do something special.. don't spend much money.
- arcooke, on 01/31/2008, -0/+1That's nothing new. They double and triple the prices of flowers for V day.
- HenryBored, on 01/31/2008, -0/+1Some things you REALLY don't wan't to know.
- nitsnipe, on 01/31/2008, -2/+3Is that why women love chocolate so much?!
Damn I'm sexist - NatashaCall, on 01/31/2008, -0/+1There are a certain number of foreign particles allowed in all processed foods. Just be glad its not a thumb or something that you find in the wrapped candy :-) Happy snacking.
- arcooke, on 01/31/2008, -0/+1I hate the law about meat being able to contain a certain amount of bone. It's so annoying when you're eating a hamburger and theres a small chunk of bone in it. That happens to me surprisingly often.
- pyro789x, on 01/31/2008, -0/+5Inaccurate title. The article states that the FDA would not consider the chocolate 'adulterated' (impure) unless there was 60 grams of insect fragments in a 100 gram sampling. It does not state anywhere in the article what the actual median amount is.
- arcooke, on 01/31/2008, -0/+1Yet another sensationalized title to get more attention. One rodent hair does not mean chocolate is "full" of hair.
Have any idea how many human pubic hairs accidentally fall into your food when you go out to eat? Google it.
- arcooke, on 01/31/2008, -0/+1Yet another sensationalized title to get more attention. One rodent hair does not mean chocolate is "full" of hair.
- an0nim0us, on 01/31/2008, -0/+2So if we cover a hot dog with chocolate, it could soon evolve into a new animal!
- UltramegaOK, on 01/31/2008, -0/+2Break me off a piece of that kit ka............WHAT THE ***** IS THAT!?!?!?!
- Wacer, on 01/31/2008, -0/+2Quite normal. The government allows so many bug parts in grain. Now eat up your bowl of cereal. It's impossible to get every tiny piece of foreign material out of food. If it bugs you (no pun), then don't read about things like this.
- benbfree, on 01/31/2008, -0/+3Because of Digg I cannot sleep, eat, drink, or do just about anything without having a cringing thought about something I've seen here. To quote the Matrix, ignorance is bliss.
- arcooke, on 01/31/2008, -0/+1You might as well rip out your eyes while you're at it.
http://www.worsleyschool.net/science/files/eyelash ...
- arcooke, on 01/31/2008, -0/+1You might as well rip out your eyes while you're at it.
- cmiser1, on 01/31/2008, -2/+1GROSS!
- CannedMango, on 01/31/2008, -0/+2Why is there a picture of Ali Larter attached to this story?
- sdellboy, on 01/31/2008, -0/+1I suppose this makes more sense than our rodents being full of chocolate....
- hollywoodkids, on 02/01/2008, -0/+1I remember immediately after the nuclear "incident" at Three Mile Island our teachers would warn us about eating any Hershey's chocolate bars for some time to come. Hershey Pennsylvania is within a stone's throw of the reactors, and the cows may have ingested irradiated grass, thus the local milk bought by Hershey's that makes the chocolate bars so special, could ultimately end up giving you a tumor. Ah, the eighties.
- VTCastle, on 02/07/2008, -0/+0you should check out how many insect parts are in your ground pepper. FDA allows them b/c they are "natural" by products, but its better to eat bug parts than pesticides.
- crossers, on 07/19/2008, -0/+0Why is there a picture of Ali Larter . what has she with this story?
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