Friday Fun -- What's Grosser Than Gross?

Here is something a bit fun and educational. Many folks maybe don't realize that there are allowable amounts of filth (insect parts, etc.) in a lot of different food commodities. Basically, it would be impossible to make a food completely filth free so certain limits had to be set. Here are a few limits that might surprise you:

• Average of 5 or more whole or equivalent insects (not counting mites, aphids, thrips, or scale insects) per 100 grams of apple butter.
  
• Average of 10 or more whole insects or equivalent per 500 grams of berries (excluding thrips, aphids and mites).
  
• Average of 11 or more rodent hairs per 50 grams in ground cinnamon.
  
• Average is 60 or more insect fragments per 100 grams of chocolate when 6 100-gram subsamples are examined.
  
• Average of 1250 or more insect fragments per 10 grams of ground oregano.
  
• Average of 30 or more insect fragments per 100 grams of peanut butter.
  
• Average of 40 mg or more of sand and grit per 100 grams of natural or golden bleached raisins.
  
• 2 or more 3 mm or longer larvae and/or larval fragments or spinach worms (caterpillars) whose aggregate length exceeds 12 mm are present in 24 pounds of canned spinach.

And my personal favorite:
-- 13 or more insect heads per 100 grams of fig paste in each of 2 or more subsamples

Enjoy your lunch! *wicked grin*

Update: Minor point of clarificaton (as noted by ericdabear). These are limits that when exceeded constitute a potential problem. So if it were 13 or more insect heads, then the fig paste product would be construed as needing a possible regulatory action.