{"id":18810,"date":"2019-10-10T08:16:26","date_gmt":"2019-10-10T13:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foodsafetytrainingcertification.com\/?p=18810"},"modified":"2019-10-10T08:16:26","modified_gmt":"2019-10-10T13:16:26","slug":"food-contamination-limits-allowed-by-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/foodsafetytrainingcourses.com\/blog\/articles\/food-safety-news\/food-contamination-limits-allowed-by-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Food Contamination Limits Allowed by Law"},"content":{"rendered":"

When it comes producing food, while we all try not to think about it, it is understandable that some unwanted additions to our food are to be expected.
\nBut, the minimum amount of “defects” allowed in food by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) might surprise you.
\nAccording to the FDA<\/a>, it is \u201ceconomically impractical to grow, harvest, or process raw products that are totally free of non-hazardous, naturally occurring, unavoidable defects\u201d.
\nThe FDA uses the term “defect” to describe the minimum amount of rodent and other animal feces, maggot and insect fragments, animal and human hairs, parasitic cysts, and rot allowed in your food.<\/p>\n

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FDA’s Food Defect Action Levels Handbook<\/h3>\n

The Food Defect Action Levels Handbook<\/a> is a publication of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration detailing acceptable levels of food contamination from sources such as maggots, thrips, insect fragments, “foreign matter”, mold, rodent hairs, and insect and mammalian feces.<\/p>\n

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