Filthy Food
Filth levels from U.S. Food and Drug Administration
- Chocolate; Chocolate Liquor
Up to 60 microscopic insect fragments per six 100-gram samples of up to 90 fragments in one sample; or an average of more than one rodent hair in a set of six samples or up to four hairs in any one sample.
- Coffee Beans
Ten percent insect-infested, or moldy.
- Fig Paste
Thirteen insect heads in two 100-gram samples.
- Fish (Fresh Frozen)
Five percent of fish or fillets with "definite odor of decomposition" over 25 percent of fish area; or 20 percent of the fish with "slight odor of decomposition" over 25 percent of fish area.
- Mushrooms (Canned)
Up to 20 maggots per 100 grams of drained mushrooms; up to 5 maggots 2 millimeters or longer or 75 mites.
- Peanut Butter
Average of 50 or more insect fragments per 100 grams. Average of one or more rodent hairs per 100 grams.
- Pepper
Average of 1 percent insect-infested or moldy by weight; or 1 percent excreta per pound.
- Popcorn
Either one rodent pellet per sample or one rodent hair per two samples; or two rodent hairs per pound or 20 gnawed grains per pound, and hairs in 50 percent of samples. Popcorn may contain up to 5 percent field corn by weight.
- Spinach (Canned or Frozen)
In 100 gram samples, either 50 aphids, thrips, or mites, or 8 leaf miners; or in 24 pounds, 2 spinach worms, or worm fragments, whose total length is 12 millimeters.
- Strawberries (Frozen, Whole, Sliced)
Mold count of 55 percent in half of the samples.
- Tomato Paste (Pizza and Other Sauces)
In 100-gram samples, either 30 fly eggs or 15 eggs plus one larva; two larva per twelve samples; or mold count averaging 40 percent (30 percent for pizza sauce) in six samples.