U.S. consumers have seen high-profile food recalls recently, including by Trader Joe's and Banquet, due to foreign objects contaminating their products. Here's how it happens.
Food safety experts and federal agencies use the terms"extraneous" or"foreign" materials to describe things like metal fragments, rubber gaskets and bits of bugs that somehow make it into packaged goods.
And the size of recalls can reach into the millions: In 2019, USDA reported 34 recalls of more than 16 million pounds of food, spurred in large part by a giant recall of nearlyPlastic pieces from frayed conveyor belts, wood shards from produce pallets and metal shavings or wire from machinery are all common. So are rocks, sticks and bugs that can make it from the field to the factory.
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