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<blockquote data-quote="puzzled in oregon" data-source="post: 1694848" data-attributes="member: 40255"><p><h2>Rodent poop</h2><p></p><p><img src="https://vanilla.futurecdn.net/livescience/media/img/missing-image.svg" alt="droppings, mouse poop, rodent poop, rat poop, poop" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p>(Image credit: Helga Lei/Shutterstock.com)</p><p>Consider the defect "mammalian excreta" a rather polite way for the FDA to tell you there's <a href="https://www.livescience.com/rodent%20poop" target="_blank">rodent poop</a> in your food. The icky defect comes up 15 times in the FDA's handbook.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Fennel seeds, ginger and mace (a spice that's similar to nutmeg) can all contain up to an average of 3 milligrams of mammal poop per pound. For sesame seeds, the limit is a smidge higher: up to an average of 5 mg per pound.</p><p></p><p>And because the world can be a cruel place, <a href="https://www.livescience.com/48468-cocoa-compound-flavanols-memory-loss.html" target="_blank">cocoa beans</a> can contain up to 10 mg of poop per pound.</p><p></p><p>For other foods in the handbook, the listing gets more specific. Wheat, for example, can contain up to an average of 9 rodent poop pellets per kilogram (or about 4 pellets/pound). And popcorn, which the FDA also permits rodents to gnaw on a bit, can contain up to 1 poop pellet in a subsample. (The FDA handbook doesn't specify the size of subsamples.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="puzzled in oregon, post: 1694848, member: 40255"] [HEADING=1]Rodent poop[/HEADING] [IMG alt="droppings, mouse poop, rodent poop, rat poop, poop"]https://vanilla.futurecdn.net/livescience/media/img/missing-image.svg[/IMG] (Image credit: Helga Lei/Shutterstock.com) Consider the defect "mammalian excreta" a rather polite way for the FDA to tell you there's [URL='https://www.livescience.com/rodent%20poop']rodent poop[/URL] in your food. The icky defect comes up 15 times in the FDA's handbook. Fennel seeds, ginger and mace (a spice that's similar to nutmeg) can all contain up to an average of 3 milligrams of mammal poop per pound. For sesame seeds, the limit is a smidge higher: up to an average of 5 mg per pound. And because the world can be a cruel place, [URL='https://www.livescience.com/48468-cocoa-compound-flavanols-memory-loss.html']cocoa beans[/URL] can contain up to 10 mg of poop per pound. For other foods in the handbook, the listing gets more specific. Wheat, for example, can contain up to an average of 9 rodent poop pellets per kilogram (or about 4 pellets/pound). And popcorn, which the FDA also permits rodents to gnaw on a bit, can contain up to 1 poop pellet in a subsample. (The FDA handbook doesn't specify the size of subsamples.) [/QUOTE]
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