Stall helper claims that fly's eggs are sesame seeds

[MarrickG]

A horrified STOMPer found fly's eggs in her anchovies and informed the stall helper who claimed that they were sesame seeds but changed the side dish after realizing that they were in fact fly's eggs.

Mdm Lee told STOMP via email today (Aug 24):

"My family was having dinner at Sun Plaza food court and we ordered Korean set meals which came with side dishes.

"To our horror, we found fly's eggs in one of the side dishes (anchovies)!

"When we informed the stall helper, she opposed by saying those 'small white things' were sesame seeds!

"After we insisted, she put on glasses and upon careful inspection, she told us she would change the anchovies for us.

"We had lost all our appetites and who knows whether the rest of the anchovies were clean!

"We also told the stall helper that the batch of anchovies should not be served just in case the rest were contaminated too.

"All she said was 'okay' but continued to serve from the same container when we watched from afar!"

 

[liketogossip]

shld ask the stall owner to eat since she said it was sesame seeds

 

[Glaringly]

The stomper misses her opportunity for not threatening to sue with a $1500 windfall waiting.

http://www.sammyboy.com/showthread.php?t=36181

Need to learn from the Singh ( FT ? ).

 

[Debonerman]

Filth in Our Food
Fly Eggs, Maggots and More

Michael Doyle, PhD
Center for Food Safety at the University of Georgia


Special from Bottom Line's Daily Health News
June 1, 2009

I t isn’t every day that the president of a major food company asks Congress for more federal oversight. But that’s exactly what Kellogg Company president and CEO David Mackay did a couple of months ago... he asked for more regulation, stricter rules and closer monitoring of food processing by the FDA. The reason for the request: Kellogg Company was one of many victims in the aftermath of the salmonella-tainted peanut butter fiasco (the outbreak sickened at least 714 people and is believed to have contributed to at least nine deaths), losing $65 to $70 million in the recall of its Keebler and Austin Quality Foods brand snack crackers, which were made with a different company’s contaminated peanut paste. There’s little question that more oversight and stricter regulation would help improve food safety, but the truth of the matter is that the government will never be able to ensure a food supply that is 100% clean. Gross as it is, we’ve been eating food with bugs, rodent droppings and the like in it for our entire lives.

THE CASE FOR INCREASED SAFETY REGULATION

"The recent outbreak illustrated that the US food safety system must be strengthened," Mackay said. "We believe the key is to focus on prevention, so that potential sources of contamination are identified and properly addressed before they become actual food safety problems."

Mackay’s testimony adds to the hue and cry directed at the Obama Administration for review and potential overhaul of our current food-safety system -- a system that too often relies on dated research and is inadequately funded, especially when it comes to inspections. Improvements may be necessary and likely to happen, but at the same time, I think we must recognize that we don’t live in a completely sanitary world -- and even when the rules are followed, and even when you buy only organic produce at high-end markets, food is far from sterile. Frankly, it’s not all that clean and it never was... and maybe it doesn’t even have to be.

If you’re wondering what I’m talking about, do a Google search for the FDA’s Food Defect Action Levels handbook, and look at some of the entries... but be prepared for some unpleasant business.

The handbook lists the acceptable levels of "natural and unavoidable" defects in food -- if contaminants are at the acceptable level or below, the food is okay by FDA standards and "poses no inherent hazard to health." Your stomach may nonetheless churn when you look at some of the "natural and unavoidable" defects, which include rodent hair and excrement, insect pieces, maggots, mold, mildew and more.

Here are some of the details:

Canned citrus fruit juices can contain up to five fly eggs (or one maggot) per 250 ml.
Canned and dried (packaged) mushrooms can have an "average of five or more maggots, 2 mm or longer, per 100 grams of drained mushrooms and proportionate liquid or 15 grams of dried mushrooms."
Wheat flour products can have an average of 9 mg of rodent excreta pellets per kilogram.
THE REALITY

However unappetizing all that sounds, ingesting any of these ingredients won’t make most people sick. In fact, we’ve been eating all sorts of contaminants in organic as well as non-organic produce... packaged foods... prepared foods, etc. There is really no way to eliminate them altogether. It’s simply unrealistic in the "real world," I was told by Michael Doyle, PhD, Regents professor of food microbiology and director of the Center for Food Safety at the University of Georgia in Griffin. "We don’t live in a sterile environment and we wouldn’t be able to practically produce these types of commodities in a sterile environment, so we have to accept the fact that there will always be some types of contaminants present," he said. It’s not okay -- but as they say, it just "is what it is." It’s not new. "Sure, you could always buy your own grain and sift it out, I suppose," says Dr. Doyle. "But that really isn’t practical." He points out that even following the current trend of buying organic or locally grown food won’t keep contaminants out of your food supply -- a visit to any farm can show you that. If creating a perfect regulatory system lies somewhere between impractical and unrealistic and we have to accept some level of filth in our food, is there anything we can do to stay healthy? It might help to remember that some noted scientists believe that small exposure to "challenging situations" helps strengthen the immune system. Beyond that, it’s another example of why we need to do everything we can to maintain digestive health. Eat well, sleep enough and exercise regularly. Don’t mask a poor diet by regularly taking medications when diet modifications can help -- doing so may cause problems that are far worse. Buy foods that are fresh and ripe... chew thoroughly... drink enough water. All this will help your body do what it needs to do in the most natural way.

 

[ahbohthen]

Does fly eggs looks like sesame seeds?

 

[Watchman]

Amazing so if any stall encounter this again, do have more sesame seeds to counter !

 

[LonewolfAlfa]

WTF!

http://www.justbajan.com/health/articles/flyeggs/index.htm

What Fly Eggs Look Like
It's not seasoning

 

[Watchman]

And this variation of magots do look like long-grain rice !

 

[angie II]

If its PRC serving you they will say "Oh its very common."

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[makapaaa]

>>>"All she said was 'okay' but continued to serve from the same container when we watched from afar!"<<<

And the 66% continued to eat and pay up after that?<!-- / message --><!-- sig -->

 

[singveld]

that sucks. dun eat this type of food.

A horrified STOMPer found fly's eggs in her anchovies and informed the stall helper who claimed that they were sesame seeds but changed the side dish after realizing that they were in fact fly's eggs.

Mdm Lee told STOMP via email today (Aug 24):

"My family was having dinner at Sun Plaza food court and we ordered Korean set meals which came with side dishes.

"To our horror, we found fly's eggs in one of the side dishes (anchovies)!

"When we informed the stall helper, she opposed by saying those 'small white things' were sesame seeds!

"After we insisted, she put on glasses and upon careful inspection, she told us she would change the anchovies for us.

"We had lost all our appetites and who knows whether the rest of the anchovies were clean!

"We also told the stall helper that the batch of anchovies should not be served just in case the rest were contaminated too.

"All she said was 'okay' but continued to serve from the same container when we watched from afar!"

 

[stardies]

never mention the stall name?

 

[kingrant]

Looks more like glutinous rice to me..wah! if they are really flies' eggs, then the fly must be like a bird size!

 

[coolguy]

Those are toppings with courtesy from the stall owner. Very nutiritious and good for health.

 

[lianbeng]

And this variation of magots do look like long-grain rice !

lianbeng asks, "not glutinous rice 罗米饭 used for bak-chang meh?"

 

[middaydog]

lianbeng asks

Oi, you
Nothing better to do huh?

 

[red amoeba]

Kimchis r joining the act as well it seems...Ah Tiongs coined the term - 指鹿为马， improvised now to be 指卵为麻

proximity to ah tiong perhaps?

 

[Faidenk]

Here in Cambodia, ant eggs salad is a pretty common snack. Lots of herbs like basil, mint, liberal lime juice, sugar makes it a tasty snack that goes well with beer or anything. Cheap too, like 2000 riel (USD0.50) for a small helping.

Other wierd stuff available here includes the crispy fried crickets, grass snakes, and of course the fried tarantulas, some kind of beetles, the bong tier kong (balut).

Me? I stop at the crickets, don't think I can swallow the hairy spiders. All these food came about during the Khmer Rouge era when food were scarce. I'm sure dogs, cats and any other jungle game were all considered fair game then.

 

[Alamaking]

And this variation of magots do look like long-grain rice !

Do look like rice, LOL

 

[halsey02]

shld ask the stall owner to eat since she said it was sesame seeds

Must have learnt from Sam, Michael & Ricky Hui's, movie "chicken & duck talk", where Michael Hui ate the cockroach & said they were dried oysters when questioned by the health inspector.