"Uncle Marvo" wrote in message
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In reply to Stewart Robert Hinsley ) who wrote
this in lid, I, Marvo, say :
In message , Alan Holmes
writes
Why are they not suitable for human consumption?
The regulatory standards for aflatoxin contamination are weaker for
material sold for animal feed than for material sold for human
consumption.
/lurk
I eat them. Have done for years. Along with wheatfeed meal pellets meant
for cattle. Yum.
I've seen where these things are made and the regs for treatent, storage
and handling are as good if not better than human stuff. Same goes for
dog/cat food, it's perfectly edible, tasty too. Just doesn't look very
nice.
lurk
I think the aflatoxin contamination occurs before they arrive in the UK for
packaging for humans or birds and is nothing to do with how they are handled
in the UK. The ones that fail due to high contamination end up as bird feed.
In fact the toxin is not good for birds either. I remember reading a few
years ago (maybe on the RSPB website but not sure now) that some of the
peanuts on sale for birds had so much toxin as to be dangerous even to them.
Depends on the year, some years there is more contamination than others,
like disease in most crops really.
David.