You bite into a piece of candy and find a
cricket leg. Eewwww. Or notice that raisin in a bowl of cereal has legs and
wings. Bam, down the disposal it goes. Such filth in foods is supposedly
illegal, but the Food and Drug Administration’s actual tolerance is far from
zero. FDA rules allow up to 60 insect fragments on average in a composite of
six 100-gram chocolate samples.
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