This happened in a similar case in which a 1.24 million pound shipment of blueberries became contaminated with shrimp Scenario #2: The foreign objects originated in the ingredients sourced by GM which were used to make Cinnamon Toast Crunch. What if you cut your hand on the job? You’ll be given a blue bandaid (easiest color to spot) which also contains traces of metal so it will show up on the metal detectors that scan outgoing shipments. The recurring problem of “random shit ending up in the food” means that employees only use retractable pens (pen caps are a liability) and papers are always loose, since staples also inevitably end up in the food. Rather, they have dedicated gowns worn only on the factory floor which are designed specifically without breast pockets so that there’s no possibility anything could fall into the food. Employees on the manufacturing line don’t wear the same clothes on the plant floor as they do on their lunch breaks. Little bitta string, little bitta shrimp, straight into the cereal tumbler.
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Back on the cereal boxing line, he leans over a tumbler full of cereal and his coat pocket spills shrimp tails plus random string / lint into the mixture. Scenario #1 A General Mills employee stuffs some shrimp tails into his coat pocket after a seafood lunch, as a souvenir.
If this is true, then the foreign objects were introduced to the cereal bag before it was sealed on the factory floor. The bag of shrimp-containing cereal appears to have not been tampered with. The re-taped bag strongly points to tampering after the product left the factory. None of these things has any place on a manufacturing floor. (For example, the ceramic shard in my tub of Breyer’s was probably an aging piece of wall tile that got power washed straight into a mixer.) But what’s the commonality between shrimp tails, string, and different string? Beats me. The foreign objects found in the cereal appear totally unrelated and don’t point towards a specific failure in the manufacturing process. I’m not a prude.īut if at first glance the Karp case seems unremarkable, a second look surfaces some.let’s say, irregularities. Two years ago I found a piece of ceramic tile in my Breyer’s ice cream. Foreign object contamination is common in industrial food processing. Now, to a Pro™ like me, this appears at first to be nothing new. On the other (unopened box), he noticed that the bottom of the bag had been re-sealed with clear tape and that it contained something stringy (he called it “floss”) along with a second knotty length of string. But there’s more: Karp’s family-sized box contained two bags of cereal.
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