Dan Harring (54)

  • About
  • Selfies (humorous)
  • Food quality and food testing
    • Things at the bottom of the bottle/container
    • Foods that went bad – Chemical analysis findings
    • Microbial spoilage
    • Chemical deterioration
    • Physical deterioration
    • Contamination with chemicals from extraneous sources
    • Crystals – susceptible foods that may develop crystal deposits
    • False alarms – not as bad as it seemed
    • Foreign objects, extraneous material
    • Packaging problems, polymer additives
    • Off odors
  • Fragrant plant growing experience in San Antonio
  • The early history of modern Chemistry
  • Louise Kandakai
    • Louise’s early history in San Antonio (and how I got in good with her)
    • Funeral
    • Louise’s older sister passes away, Oct 2024

Foreign objects, extraneous material

Below are some examples from the second half of my career when I had a digital camera (starting 1999). Also see the “Crystals – susceptible foods that may develop crystal deposits” page.

Birdshot pellets in packaged beef

Droppings, pellets, excreta

Bone chips in ground beef, olive pit fragments, stiff sharp bay leaves, glass (characteristic conchoidal fracture pattern and density)

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