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Cooking Do It Yourself Maggots in food USA food fda and food spt241

Here are 10 foods the FDA allows small amounts of natural contaminants, including maggots or insect fragments, as outlined in its Defect Levels Handbook:

1. Canned Tomatoes
Allowed: 1 maggot per 500 grams.
2. Tomato Paste or Sauce
Allowed: 2 maggots per 100 grams.
3. Mushrooms (Canned or Dried)
Allowed: 20 maggots of any size per 100 grams.
4. Brussels Sprouts (Frozen)
Allowed: 60 aphids, thrips, or mites per 100 grams; maggots may also be present in small quantities.
5. Canned Sweet Corn
Allowed: 2 or more maggots per 100 grams.
6. Peanut Butter
Allowed: 30 or more insect fragments per 100 grams; trace maggots may also be permissible.
7. Pizza Sauce
Allowed: 30 or more fly eggs per 100 grams, or 2 or more maggots per 100 grams.
8. Canned Pineapple
Allowed: 20% of pineapple by weight may contain mold (maggots are also permissible in trace amounts within moldy fruit).
9. Popcorn Kernels
Allowed: 1 or more rodent hairs per 50 grams, along with trace maggots.
10. Wheat Flour
Allowed: 75 or more insect fragments per 50 grams, including small maggots.