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durge69 t1_j1rxs3q wrote

Reply to comment by nevm 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

>Europe’s limit is zero insect parts.

I highly, highly, highly doubt it. Even if the standard is zero, there is still likely insect parts in the chocolate.

The U.S. doesn't allow insect parts because they just said "fuck it", they allow insect parts because it is incredibly difficult to prevent every insect part from making their way into the chocolate.

Unless every chocolate factory in europe is in a billion dollar clean room, I guarantee Europe has insect bits in their chocolate.

>Even if US chocolate didn’t taste like puke, I am not sure I would eat any anyway based on this.

It's butyric acid, and it's just Hershey's chocolate, which I love by the way. The United States has more chocolate than just that one brand.

That's like having some bad curry from one Indian restaurant and swearing up and down that all Indian food is terrible.

Also, I hate bidets.

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