They find worms inside this well-known brand of wholemeal cookies: here are the ones

Fortunately, more and more people are getting into the good habit of reading food labels carefully before buying anything. By doing so, we are more aware of the real quality of the food we want to buy and we avoid falling into the traps of advertising marketing. The label contains a lot of very important information such as the origin of the ingredients and the different processes undergone.

What has brought us to this is the continuous news of food contamination that now increasingly concerns the big brands, which have always been a valid example of seriousness and quality. Now we have learned to understand that in some cases the contamination really happens accidentally, because it may be food, such as cereals and fruits, that come from the fields and therefore it is much easier for an insect to escape the many checks. and manage to contaminate the final product.

But this is not always the case, and as proof it is the portal of the Ministry of Health which is continuously updated on the different batches withdrawn due to certain inconsistencies detected. This portal was created specifically to inform the entire population concerned in real time. In recent months, a very strange phenomenon has occurred: many brands producing wholemeal cookies have had to withdraw many batches from the market because insects have been found inside.

The companies concerned point out that the production of the food in question involves processing where the temperature exceeds 100 degrees and that at these high temperatures neither the eggs nor the insects would survive. Thus, contamination takes place in the following stages, which can be transport or simply poor storage. There are generally two types of insects that can be found in these types of foods: tenebrio molitor and moths or moths. In the first case it is a beetle which deposits its eggs directly on food, but if they are ingested, there is no risk for human health.

In the second case, however, the development times are much longer and if accidentally ingested can cause much gastrointestinal discomfort to the unfortunate. Very often it is possible to find these insects still in the larval state, where they are in the form of small worms. At this point, many will wonder what to do if they realize they have purchased a contaminated product. Experts advise us to return the product to the place of purchase, so that you are reimbursed and immediately send the report to the competent authorities.