The Maggots in your Mushrooms

Sounds like a Robyn Hitchcock b-side, but in fact a recent op-ed on food contaminants.

Tomato juice, for example, may average “10 or more fly eggs per 100 grams [the equivalent of a small juice glass] or five or more fly eggs and one or more maggots.” Tomato paste and other pizza sauces are allowed a denser infestation — 30 or more fly eggs per 100 grams or 15 or more fly eggs and one or more maggots per 100 grams.

Ew, but it was funnier when Spy did the same thing back in the day. Having spent a fair amount of time messing around with the Pure Food and Drug Act, it seems like a qualifier in there would be appropriate. And while I think of it, who did the dried bean people have to fuck to be able to get away with bagging up bits of gravel with your beans, and putting the onus on you to "sort" them. Thrips or no thrips, most other food packaging endeavors seem able to keep stones out of the food they sell you.