Ben Chapman Browse All Authors Top 4 quotes by Ben Chapman They take 10 bags out of a week-long production and try to shake out what might be in here, do we have particularly high insect parts or was it a particularly buggy time of year when the food was harvested ? And they make sure they are below those The FDA thresholds. Ben Chapman top-news Look, this is all a very, very, very low-risk situation, i look at it as a yuck factor versus a risk factor. Insect parts are gross, but they don't lead to foodborne illnesses. Ben Chapman top-news Cross-contamination from raw food, undercooking food, hand-washing and spreading germs from raw food, those are the things that contribute to the more than 48 million cases of foodborne illness we have every year in the US. Ben Chapman top-news In practice, as someone in food safety and someone who focuses on that and as a concerned customer, I'd want to know what the specifics of that are. Ben Chapman company-news