Boll weevils in pasta

A spokeswoman for the supermarket giant said if a customer found something in their products that shouldn’t be there they should return it immediately so the company can carry out a ‘thorough investigation’.
Mrs O’Shea received a £10 voucher for her troubles.

No, Tesco's own brand. Anyway I'll finish now. Just thought I'd warn you all. Thanks for your replies.

I am going to look through the cupboard now!

Thanks for the warning.

I've heard if you put the newly bought packets in the freezer for 24 hours any eggs or weevils in the dried goods will be killed

I found a piece of glass in some chicken purchased from Tesco once - about 15 years ago now. I phoned and they couldn't have been more disinterested if they had tried.

Not keen in Tesco at the best of times.

I have always placed several bay leaves in flour, pasta, rice and other dry foods. It works well for me.

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So I guess you don't want to read either of these articles which talk about the allowable levels of contaminants in our foods?

Including 20 maggots per 100grm of tined mushrooms?

www.livescience.com/55459-fda-acceptable-food-defects.html

www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/11581770/Hair-aphids-and-bugs-the-horrifying-stuff-we-unwittingly-eat.html

When I first lived in Middle Easter countries, it was impossible to buy flour without weevils - usually just the tiny larvae - in.
Weetabix was known locally as Weevilbrix!

The only solution with flour was to put it in the freezer, to kill them, and then use a fine sieve. I gather they are not at all harmful, though.

One Christmas, same place, I wanted to make mincemeat - you couldn't buy it anywhere. The first lot of dried fruit had so many weevils (beetles and probably larvae) in it, I took it back to the shop.
Shopkeeper gave me replacements, assuring me that there were no 'animals' in this lot.
It all looked fine so I went ahead with my mincemeat - only just as I was tipping the last lot in, I spied some tiny black thing moving...
Sod it! Having got thus far I just carried on, couldn't waste all that sugar and hard-to-come-by dried fruit!
Nobody but me was any the wiser.

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Used to get these all the time in flour when living in the Middle East. It didn’t come without, not in the early days anyway. Only way was to put it in the freezer, and then sieve the little dead buggers out.
Weetabix was known locally as Weevilbrix at the time - nuff sed.