SC - kind of icky - Little Mites in Flour Products -

Mon Mar 12 10:27:21 PST 2001

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In a message dated 3/12/01 10:27:02 AM US Mountain Standard Time, 
mfchamberlin at pacbell.net writes:

> First and foremost, this is not a problem with anybody's housekeeping.  Just
> to reassure anybody who might have been worried.
> 
> 

Absolutely it isn't, and no one should feel like it is. I lived overseas in 
Iran for a very long time, and our flour products, grain products, were all 
from storage and had been kept in vacumn sealed bins by the military until 
needed at the regional coop we bought from. Everything had little bugs. It is 
part of the process of milling that some of the egg larve get in there and 
stay in there, hatch in the product. It is just usually used up fast enough 
in most homes that people never see that result. Consequently, we saw it all 
the time. Sometimes our grain products were two years old at opening of the 
bins. 

I asked the docs about it in Iran...and other docs since then. We were told 
to sift them out. Not to worry about it, and use the flour. It wasn't going 
to hurt any of us. 

They used to joke is was just added protein....

Lars

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<HTML><BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff">In a message dated 3/12/01 10:27:02 AM US Mountain Standard Time, 
 mfchamberlin at pacbell.net writes:
 
 
 <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">First and foremost, this is not a problem with anybody's housekeeping.  Just
 to reassure anybody who might have been worried.
 
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 Absolutely it isn't, and no one should feel like it is. I lived overseas in 
 Iran for a very long time, and our flour products, grain products, were all 
 from storage and had been kept in vacumn sealed bins by the military until 
 needed at the regional coop we bought from. Everything had little bugs. It is 
 part of the process of milling that some of the egg larve get in there and 
 stay in there, hatch in the product. It is just usually used up fast enough 
 in most homes that people never see that result. Consequently, we saw it all 
 the time. Sometimes our grain products were two years old at opening of the 
 bins. 
 
 I asked the docs about it in Iran...and other docs since then. We were told 
 to sift them out. Not to worry about it, and use the flour. It wasn't going 
 to hurt any of us. 
 
 They used to joke is was just added protein....
 
 Lars</HTML>

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