Is there a certain amount of rat hair in peanutbutter?

Question

Is there a certain amount of rat hair in peanutbutter?

Answer 1

there can be, yes... along with fly wings and other assorted 'bits'. we watched a movie about it in health class back when i was in school.... many had to leave because they were so grossed out by what the fda allowed in the foods we ate.  

Answer 2

What do you mean by that? search it on Google!

Answer 3

Only if your peanut butter was made in China.

Answer 4

Theres a certain amount of rat and vermin parts in pretty much all processed foods we eat.  Rats and bugs are always falling into food processing equipment and the US government allows for a certain percentage of it to be legal and safe although I'm not sure of the exact amount.  This is why I try to eat mostly unprocessed foods.

Answer 5

Probably.  A certain amount is legal.  If that bothers you, make your own.  It's not that difficult.

Answer 6

Peanuts grow in and on dirt.  Unless you completely drench a field in poisonous pesticides (which people get VERY upset about), the field that dirt is in is also home to mice, rats, birds and all kinds of bugs.  When you harvest the peanuts, it is inevitable that a small amount of mouse parts, mouse p**p, bugs, feathers & whatever else also gets harvested.  This is true of ALL vegetable crops, and the 'contamination' is FAR, FAR higher for so-called "organic" crops.

To encourage a best-effort to keep foods clean, the FDA have established maximum limits of these contaminants that are "allowable" (ie unavoidable) in foods that go to market.

Peanut butter can have 30 or more insect fragments, 1 rodent hair, and no more than 25 mg rat p**p per 100 grams peanut.

BTW...By only eating "unprocessed foods", Aneladgamw00t (above) is eating 10 to 50 times more of these contaminants than you are!

Bon appetit!