If your diet regularly contains Nutella and Pringles - is your biggest concern really a trace amount of rat shit ?
I mean itās just like people getting shocked when there are listeria outbreaks from veggies grown in California because of the sanitary conditions in the fields. Seriously - people have this idea that the picture on the carton of an old time farmer growing veggies and delivering them to the store in his beat up old truck is how they get this stuff. Itās grown in massive field inland and harvested by a bunch of laborers who are making just enough to make it worth crossing the border, living in packed dorms and putting in 16 hour days for a month or 2 - only to go back home and wait to do it all over again in 4 months.
Someone just pissed off the inspector this week or was light on the payoff - thatās all. This stuff happens everywhere in any food product. Only difference is you never hear about it because itās not bad enough to reach reportable limits or because they keep it quiet.
I used to have a string of grocery stores as a client and the rodent reports were disgusting. This was a āhigh endā store too - not some ghetto food store ran by foreigners - think more Whole Foods type environment where you pay 50% more than WalMart for the same food because they have the nice deli/sushi bar and butcher in house. It was was there than the supermarket I worked as a produce clerk at 35 years ago - but it looks high end so people think itās clean.
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