Is Your Food Bugged?

Is Your Food Bugged?

Bugs in your peanut butter and orange juice are a common occurrence, but who woulda thunk it?

If you have a vegetable garden you will expect to find ear wigs, worms, and bugs in your harvest. You make sure your food is properly washed and double check for any insects that might have been overlooked. It's easy to be sure you get the bugs out before you serve your family but, it isn't as easy for large scale commercially harvested food. It would be impossible to check every vegetable, grain silo, corn crib, and flour mill world wide to avoid such contaminants so the FDA has set guidelines for how much foreign matter…more precisely bugs, larvae, eggs, and rodent hair can be safely allowed in our food. It is estimated that each of us eats an average of one pound of insects every year.

http://www.healthmad.com/Health/Is-Your-Food-Bugged.114804