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aaaaaaaarrrrrgh t1_j1t60jm wrote on December 27, 2022 at 4:53 AM

Reply to comment by AimHere in TIL the FDA’s Food Defect Action Levels Handbook details the acceptable levels of contaminants of food from sources such as maggots, thrips, insect fragments, “foreign matter”, mold, rodent hairs, and insect and mammalian feces. by anogre8me

I think once it's an official ingredient the limit goes away. See: sesame got listed as an allergen, so companies had to take measures to prevent cross contamination... or intentionally add and declare sesame. https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2022-12-22/tough-new-labeling-law-for-sesame-prompts-companies-to-add-it-to-their-products