Wild bird peanuts?
 

Why are they not suitable for human consumption?

Wild bird peanuts?
 

I have often wondered about that, I love peanuts and a big sack full gets
very tempting don't it

kate


"Alan Holmes" wrote in message
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Why are they not suitable for human consumption?

Wild bird peanuts?
 

In reply to Alan Holmes ) who wrote this in
, I, Marvo, say :

Why are they not suitable for human consumption?

/lurk

They are.

lurk

Wild bird peanuts?
 

"Alan Holmes" wrote in message
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Why are they not suitable for human consumption?



because "may contain nuts"?

Wild bird peanuts?
 

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.
--
Stewart Robert Hinsley

Wild bird peanuts?
 

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

Wild bird peanuts?
 

"Uncle Marvo" wrote in message
...
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.

Wild bird peanuts?
 

"Space" wrote in message
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"Alan Holmes" wrote in message
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Why are they not suitable for human consumption?



because "may contain nuts"?

LOL