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FDA has limits to how many maggots, say, can be in food.

Orange Juice, Fruits, Etc.

https://www.cbsnews.com/gooddaysacramento/news/bugs-rodent-h...

Though I have to say it's pretty awesome(terrible?) that they mix SI units with english units. (milligrams per pound)

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There's a fantastic book, called the secret life of groceries by Benjamin Lorr. In it, he mentions that at the FDA they call Trader Joe's "Recall Joe's" for their disturbingly high number of recalls

Last year, Consumer Reports did a study on spices contaminated with chemicals (cadmium, etc). And Trader Joe's wasn't immune from it.

Certain third world countries would grow them in contaminated areas and then sell them back to the west.

BTW, I appreciate your username. There's an episode of The Good Fight that talks about it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window

Thanks for pointing it out. TIL

I read it in a book and thought it explained a lot of what our corporate, and media driven society has become. There are agendas and you can almost track their movement, and how the window of what is socially acceptable has moved. I think everyone should know and study the overton window concept.

> at the FDA they call Trader Joe's "Recall Joe's" for their disturbingly high number of recalls

Doesn't seem to be that many recalls in comparison to other US chains. FDA's search returns 11 recalls[1] for the last 3 years.

[1] https://www.fda.gov/search?s=trader%20joe&items_per_page=100...

More details from the book: https://blog.rayberger.org/the-secret-life-of-groceries

It seems to be before Aldi Nord bought Trader's joes, which happened in the 70s.

I remember more the products they have discontinued.

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