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goodguydick t1_j1rdtbi wrote

Reply to comment by onioning 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 mean a kitchen floor is probably more dirty than a field, no?

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onioning t1_j1re7n4 wrote

No. Not by a million miles. Not by a million billion trillion miles.

Kitchen floors are cleaned. Fields are not. Fields very literally can not be cleaned (because then it wouldn't be soil anymore).

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goodguydick t1_j1ret5x wrote

What about other types of contaminants? I assume there are certain chemicals commonly found on kitchen floors that aren’t found in fields right

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onioning t1_j1rft76 wrote

They're certainly different, but not better or worse. You do have to wash stuff that falls on the ground, just as you have to wash stuff that comes out of the ground.

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