>Doug Henwood wrote:
>>
>> Spy quoted from this in the 80s, and Harper's did in its October
>> issue, but it always makes good reading: the FDA's Food Defects
>> Action Levels - and the beauty of the web is you can get the whole
>> thing yourself: <http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/dalbook.html>. less
>> than 10mgs of mammalian excreta per pound of cocoa beans, fewer than
>> 30 fly eggs per 100g of tomato paste, fewer then 13 insect heads per
>> 100g of fig paste are of no danger to human health....
>>
>> Doug
>
>Of course under any conceivable social structure or mode of production,
>past, present or future, an attempt to reduce such "defects" to zero
>would equal starvation. There never has been nor will be a wholly "pure"
>food supply (outside the laboratory anyhow).
Of course. It's just kind of funny. I know that's a hard concept for you to grasp.
Doug