Re: Ha
'A US Food and Drug Administration handbook shows that US food standards allow for:
Rat hairs in paprika
Rat droppings in ginger
Insect fragments in peanut butter
Maggots in orange juice.
The US suggests that these are unlikely to be harmful to human health provided the levels are fairly low.
We (UK & EU) suggest that we'd rather not have them present, and err on the side of caution.'
This is not true. These are levels at which the US inspectors are legally required to prosecute - at levels below this they can caution or prosecute as they think appropriate. In the EU inspectors are never required to prosecute and can caution at any level of contamination.
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