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<text id=90TT2686>
<title>
Oct. 08, 1990: Natural (Yuck!) Ingredients
</title>
<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
Oct. 08, 1990 Do We Care About Our Kids?
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
GRAPEVINE, Page 23
Natural (Yuck!) Ingredients
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<body>
<p>By DAVID ELLIS/Reported by Sidney Urquhart
</p>
<p> Americans have gone gaga for natural foods, but do they
really know what they're getting? Some answers can be found in
the FDA's updated Food Defect Action Levels list, which
indicates limits for "natural or unavoidable" substances in
processed food. While people might blanch at eating insects and
their excreta, many entomologists insist that the only harm is
psychological. Some even contend that the government should
allow more bugs in food so that crops can be grown with fewer
pesticides.
</p>
<p> FOOD LIMIT
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<p> TOMATOES An average of two maggots per 500 g
(or 17 1/2-oz. can).
</p>
<p> GOLDEN RAISINS 35 fruit fly eggs per 8 oz.
</p>
<p> POTATO CHIPS Average of 6% of pieces, by weight,
showing rot.
</p>
<p> GREEN COFFEE BEANS One live insect in each of two
containers or two dead bugs per five
containers.
</p>
<p> CHOCOLATE One rodent hair per 100 g (one large
candy bar).
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<p> PEACHES 3% moldy or wormy, by count (frozen or
canned).
</p>
<p> MUSHROOMS 20 maggots per 100 g (3.5-oz. can).
</p>
<p> WHOLE PEPPER 1% mammalian excreta per lb., on
average.
</p>
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