EPT
On September 24 2007 14:19 Physician wrote:
# micronesia - well if you ever worked near stored grain, you wouldn't need specifics, you just see the mouse and rat droppings, the beetle and other insect larvae and eggs, the yeast, the fungi infestations yourself etc..about 20%-50% of the worlds grains get gobbled up by pests, fungi and bacteria before they ever reach the consumer.. then there is high and low quality grains.. you don't want to go there, but the lower the quality the more dirty too.. bottom line, stored grains (even those that go to make flour, which in turn ends up as macaroni) all have a level of "acceptable" contaminants.. from pesticides, roach and rodent feces and a huge list of other critters.. also anywhere in the food chain, all the way into the box and box storage pests can continue to add their eggs, feces, saliva etc.. and yeast and bacteria their spores etc.. luckily they work on keeping the contaminants to a "healthy" minimum.
# micronesia - well if you ever worked near stored grain, you wouldn't need specifics, you just see the mouse and rat droppings, the beetle and other insect larvae and eggs, the yeast, the fungi infestations yourself etc..about 20%-50% of the worlds grains get gobbled up by pests, fungi and bacteria before they ever reach the consumer.. then there is high and low quality grains.. you don't want to go there, but the lower the quality the more dirty too.. bottom line, stored grains (even those that go to make flour, which in turn ends up as macaroni) all have a level of "acceptable" contaminants.. from pesticides, roach and rodent feces and a huge list of other critters.. also anywhere in the food chain, all the way into the box and box storage pests can continue to add their eggs, feces, saliva etc.. and yeast and bacteria their spores etc.. luckily they work on keeping the contaminants to a "healthy" minimum.
Oh so there was no specific significance to 'macaroni and cheese.' I assumed you didn't just mean the conditions by which grains in general are stored, but now you have clarified that that is exactly what you meant.
