That piece of chocolate may contain up to 90 insect parts and 3 rodent hairs. FDA Handbook.
Title 21, Code of Federal Regulations, Part 110.110 allows the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to establish maximum levels of natural or unavoidable defects in foods for human use that present no health hazard.
The FDA set these action levels because it is economically impractical to grow, harvest, or process raw products that are totally free of non-hazardous, naturally occurring, unavoidable defects.
FOREIGN MATTER
Includes objectionable matter such as sticks, stones, burlap bagging, cigarette butts, etc. Also includes the valueless parts of the raw plant material, such as stems.
INFESTATION
The presence of any live or dead life cycle stages of insects in a host product, (e.g., weevils in pecans, fly eggs and maggots in tomato products); or evidence of their presence (i.e., excreta, cast skins, chewed product residues, urine, etc.); or the establishment of an active breeding population, (e.g., rodents in a grain silo).
CHOCOLATE:
Insect filth: Average is 60 or more insect fragments per 100 grams when 6 100-gram subsamples are examined or any 1 subsample contains 90 or more insect fragments.
Rodent filth: Average is 1 or more rodent hairs per 100 grams in 6 100-gram subsamples examined or any 1 subsample contains 3 or more rodent hairs.
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