I also work in the food industry and your friends are being too generous. ![]() This is probably overkill, so I apologize, but this is kind of my bread and butter. To me, the black debris looks like it was incorporated somehow in the baked/cooked stage, which also looks like where the shrimp tails could have been added.Ĭould still be from a retail store though like you suggest, no clue about taped bags. When CTC is made (as far as I can recall) it's compounded, then turned into a sheet, then cut to squares, then those are baked/cooked (I believe), then final seasoning - then on to packaging. Though the black debris on the squares is puzzling. This new info is interesting, and you've got a good theory. ![]() In my opinion the shrimp tails are likely contamination from an employee - either accidentally or on purpose, perhaps leftover waste from their lunch or something. You also have to consider that the production line which produces CTC will likely have nothing in common with any area which also deals with shrimp - not only do they use completely different processing equipment, but GM typically separates food processing into areas grouped of similar products. It'll depend on how widespread the issue is.īecause of the way the shrimp tails appeared (they are relatively intact) it means they were added to the CTC in the later stages of processing - there's no way they would have survived the compounding, sheeting, or cutting steps. This picture strongly contributes to that conclusion: Īs well as this picture, which despite his belief they are "cooked in" to the squares are likely just absorbed due to the transfer or moisture: He shows that it's a family pack with multiple bags, which is the kind of bulk packaging you find at wholesale stores like Costco, Sam's Club, and BJs. They think the actual explanation is that it's from the retail store. If this happened it would be on camera so we'll find out about that. The only explanation for that would be if an employee was carrying around debris in their pocket and then in one of the final phases of production tossed that debris onto the conveyor. ![]() Factory floors for food are extremely regulated and controlled and cross contamination with something as foreign and exotic as shrimp on a line that produces breakfast cereal is not conceivable. They are pretty confident based on the details of the story that this did not occur in the factory. Been talking about this a lot with friends in the food industry.
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