RATS AND BUGS!

One pound of peanut butter can contain up to 150 bug fragments and 5 rodent hairs. Up to 150. That means there could only be 120–130. Whew! I was almost disgusted there for a second. (1)(2)

(1)Stephanie Bailey, “Bug Food: Edible Insects,”

University of Kentucky College of Agriculture,

Entomology Department, www.ca.uky.edu.

(2)“Food Defect Action Levels,” U.S. Food and Drug

Administration Center for Food Safety and Applied

Nutrition, last updated November 2005,

www.cfsan.fda.gov.