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So apparently this is a "book" full of the level of stuff the Food and Drug Administration allows in the U.S. food supplies. Of course, it says averages of stuff is usually lower, but still...they allow up to the stuff listed here.

For example:


They allow what is there in peanut butter, saying it is a naturally occurring and impossible to rid all of it. Although it's not saying that all this is in every piece of peanut butter, you should get the point.


So, pretty interesting, and gross!

What do you think? And for people outside of the U.S., do you know of anything like this for your government, etc.?

mornin dok


topic: so??? did you think your food is 100% pure or what, i don't get why this is alarming. some of this shit (fecal matter for instance) is literally everywhere, you eat very small amounts of it every day. Even if the food was somehow entirely pure, you'd get lots of this stuff just from THE AIR as you're eating it

anecdote: supposedly a guy would pee in the apple cider VAT at our community fair every year. except it doesn't matter because it's a huge fucking vat

who cares this shouldn't really be a big surprise or scare to anyone. you're pretty crazy if you think anything you eat is 100% pure ever.

You have to remember that there is no way to avoid it and that safe levels are still safe levels....

... and that this information is old news. If you are really disgusted by this, then stop looking it up (Hi Doktor). The world is a dirty... filthy place under a microscope, and these studies/ regulations can make anything sound horrifying when in reality everything is just fine.

Well alright then I guess I'll just not eat food anymore (seriously this is kind of expected if they didn't allow something like this we wouldn't have FOOD)

fuck this, I ain't eating no rat shit!

oh wait, dogs urinate on them...
shit I'll have to rely on oxygen

but wait... smokers and cars and black people...

nomatter how sterile things are, there will always be filth, it's actually better that way (because if it was totally sterile, we wouldn't be as immune so tiny shit coul really fuck us up)

they had an episode of frasier about this that was amazing where niles managed to gross out an entire class of kids by talking about all the shit on their food he had memorized.

extra proteins is never bad

Actually too much is but it's not the place to talk about it lolz


I remember getting a little packet handout in gradeschool with some info like this on it.  It pretty much surprised everyone.  As I got older I then realized this stuff can't be avoided 100%

no no no i'm not saying OH SHIT THERE'S SHIT IN MY FOOD i gotta stop eating etc

i said it was gross but "interesting" i mean where the hell do they pull these numbers out and stuff too like "oh man 3 rat hairs that's one too many for chocolate" or whatever the hell

i know it's unavoidable and i'm not freaking out i was just posting it !!


p.s. doktormartini wtf never post an hour long video again no one will watch it

i said it was gross but "interesting" i mean where the hell do they pull these numbers out and stuff too like "oh man 3 rat hairs that's one too many for chocolate" or whatever the hell

well they will have some tests, experiments, calculations etc to determine at what point the risk of a food spreading disease and infection becomes unacceptable. i don't know how well the fda works, but i'm assuming it's a good organisation which does it's job judging by the replies so far.

so 3 rat hairs per 100 grams of chocolate for example might mean that there is potentially enough bacteria in 3 rat hairs for it to spread disease, but humans can tolerate the levels which would be on two or one.

i don't think the reasoning is like "three rat hairs? no way that's too gross", it will be more to do with science and numbers.

i'm not even modestly irked by this knowledge. i mean i might feel a little hesitant to eat something if someone could tell me if definitely had half an ounce of pigeon shit in it, but i don't have that dickhead over my shoulder all day long. it's just a slightly gross fact which is only a problem if you want it to be (or if you're a nutcase!)

i don't know how well the fda works, but i'm assuming it's a good organisation which does it's job judging by the replies so far.

It's not that good of an organization.  I'm not saying everything it does is bad...but it's had it's fair share of horrible things (Vioxx to name one).

yeah i thought you'd say something like that. if you want to post a couple of things they have done which are objectionable with some links showing evidence (that aren't 90 minute speech videos please) then i'd like to give em a skim.

yeah i thought you'd say something like that. if you want to post a couple of things they have done which are objectionable with some links showing evidence (that aren't 90 minute speech videos please) then i'd like to give em a skim.

Well they approved the drug vioxx even though it was dangerous and so many people who were on it got health problems related to it such as strokes.
http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/vioxx_estimates.html

They approved artificial sweetners which are made in a lab.  Things like Splenda (which is made with chlorine fyi) which hasn't been significantly studied.

For example, some of the Aspartame you consumed is converted into Formeldahyde in your body. 

In Survey of Aspartame studies: correlation of outcome and funding sources, Ralph G. Walton, Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine (NEOUCOM) [90], surveyed 166 studies of aspartame in peer reviewed medical literature. According to Walton's review, 74 studies had Nutrasweet industry related funding and 92 were independently funded. 100% of the industry funded research attested to aspartame's safety, whereas 92% (85 of 92) of the independently funded research identified a problem.[91]

A lot of companies that fund things are funding research for THEIR product meaning they want money.  They're not going to say Aspartame is bad if that is what they are selling.  For example, Cardbury-Schweppes is known to invest money in diabetes research.

Gotta go to school I will edit this when I get home probably.

Doktormartini is right, they aren't perfect.

When I grow up I want to make a "clean" food factory and I'll make 100% clean food (I'll use the same kind of room they make integrated circuits in) and sell it to rich people with mysophobia/OCD.

there aint nothing wrong with splenda. the chlorine makes the body think its not sugar so it passes right though you. you'd have to eat like BAGS of it everyday to cause you harm. you get more chlorine in your system from jumping in a pool

You get more chlorine in your system from jumping in a pool

Or from drinking tap water in most cities. I swear the tap water at my parents house has the most freaking chlorinated water I've ever had the displeasure of drinking. 

 Anyways, I read something similar to this report years ago, but I figure if it's not going to kill me, then why worry about it.  I'm not sure how they come up with their numbers as to what's acceptable though.