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FDA defect handbook

The job of the FDA defect handbook is to see how much mold, rot, parasites, bugs, and other contaminants are in your food. They will also evaluate how many of these things are allowed in your food before they take action.

Broccoli: The FDA will allow about 204 aphids, thrips, and mites in a 12-ounce bag of broccoli

Salt and Pepper: Sticks, stones, burlap bags, and cigarette buds can be found in salt and pepper.

Cornmeal: 13 fragments of rodent poop per 24-ounce container of cornmeal is allowed by the FDA

Canned tomatoes: The FDA allows 3 maggots per 28 ounces of tomato

Peanut butter: The FDA will allow 136 insects per 10-ounce jar of peanut butter.

Rockfish: Up to 30% copepods and parasitic crustations are allowed on rockfish

Pasta: No more than a rodent's hair in a 16-ounce box

Protein beer: Must be less than 2,500 APIHDS per 10 grams of hops

Rasins: in 15 15-ounce boxes, no more than 65 fly eggs are allowed

Spinach: in a bulk pack of 24 pounds, there have to be 2 or more larvae that are 3 millimeters long or line up 12 millimeters of calypters

Canned corn: allowed to have 2 insect eggs per 100 grams

Ketchup: allows 30 fruit fly eggs per 100 grams

Cinnamon: allows 400 insect fragments per 50 grams

Oregano: 300 insect fragments per 10 grams are allowed

Coca beans: can contain 10 mg of poop per pound

Popcorn: can contain up to 1 poop pellet per sub-sample

Fruit juice: can contain one maggot per 250 milliliters. Juice that contains one maggot can contain only 5 fly eggs

Mushrooms: Have up to 20 maggots per 100 grams or up to 5 if longer than 2 millimeters

Foreign matter: stick stones, burlap bags, and other foreign matter are allowed in mace

Food Pyrimid

The food pyramid has changed over the decades, so let’s go through them

Original: used to have them all even and separated everything into groups, but didn’t specify portions

Group 1: Green/Yellow vegetables

Group 2: Oranges, Tomatoes, Grapefruit

Group 3: Potatoes and other vegetables, and fruits

Group 4: Milk and products

Group 5: meat, poultry, etc

Group 6: bread grains

Group 7: Butter and Magrine

1956: chained it to basic groups

  1. milk

  2. meat

  3. vegitables

  4. bread and cereal group

They would eat other foods needed to round out the other meals

The assumption was that Americans would eat more than what was laid out

1980: was similar to what we see now, better specificity, but they added alcohol and sweets

1992: The Great Pyramid took out sweets and alcohol and gave servings and portion sizes

2005: too generalized but encouraged exercises

2011: introduced My plate had no food, a way to generalize, and gave no advice

Harvard study: has activity portions, sizes food serving sizes, and separates and labels more