Remember in school, when you learned that Louis Pasteur figured out how to pasteurize
milk, saving millions of lives and making milk safe for everyone to drink?
It seems some folks missed school that day because there are people who enjoy drinking
raw, unpasteurized milk.
Raw milk isn't necessarily dangerous to consume, but when it is mass-produced on the
level the dairy industry puts out milk in the United States, the odds of passing on
harmful bacteria increase exponentially if pasteurization is skipped.Unpasteurized milk
can carry dangerous bacteria like Salmonella, E. coli, and Listeria.
These and other harmful organisms killed in the pasteurization process can be dangerous
to the young, people with weakened immune systems, the elderly, and pregnant women.
Pasteurization prevents harmful diseases such as listeriosis, typhoid fever, tuberculosis,
diphtheria, and brucellosis, so it makes sense to keep raw milk under control.
In the US, 20 states and the District of Columbia prohibit the sale of raw milk, while its sale
is heavily regulated in all but 13 of the remaining 30 states.
When having trouble sleeping, some people may take melatonin.
In small doses, it's a harmless supplement that can help regulate sleep, but it is not
generally considered a food ingredient.
That's a problem for the makers of Lazy Larry brownies (formerly called Lazy Cakes),
as their principal marketed ingredient is melatonin.
The Food and Drug Administration found out about this additive and sent a letter to the
company responsible, informing them that their cakes weren't particularly good for people
to . . . well, eat.These cakes are particularly dangerous for children, who might see a delicious
brownie and eat it.
If a child were to take melatonin, they shouldn't exceed 0.3 milligrams, but these brownies
are packed with 8 milligrams of melatonin.
While the nation as a whole hasn't jumped on the bandwagon and outright banned Lazy
Larry brownies just yet, you won't be able to find them anywhere in Arkansas.
The state banned them in 2011
Sometimes, the most dangerous treats are also the most delicious.
That is certainly the case for the ackee fruit, which can be found in West Africa and Jamaica
but certainly not in the United States.
The FDA has completely banned the importation of ackee fruit into the country, and it may
have been for a good reason: Ingesting unripe ackee will result in something called Jamaican
vomiting sickness (JVS), which is pretty much exactly what you think it is.
About two to 12 hours after eating unripe ackee, someone with JVS will begin vomiting
uncontrollably, may lose consciousness, and is susceptible to seizures.
If this happens while you're out camping, this little fruit is going to kill you.The
reason ackee causes JVS has to do with the presence of hypoglycin, a nonproteinogenic
amino acid.
It functions by lowering a person's blood sugar, which leads to an increased use of
glucose and ultimately hypoglycemia.
There are thousands of people who eat ackee fruit and its products every day without harm
thanks to their patience in waiting for the fruit to ripen, but seeing as dozens of people
die from eating it every year, the FDA may be on the right track with this ban.
Sassafras oil is probably the one product many people have heard of but have never used.
That's certainly true for Americans, seeing as the use of it in commercially mass-produced
foods was banned back in 1960.
Sassafras is a bit different than other items on this list; you might just have it growing
in your backyard.
The plant hasn't been banned, but you aren't going to find it in your root beer anymore.
The reason the oil has been banned in the States stems from the presence of safrole,
a constituent in sassafras oil, which has been shown to be carcinogenic, causing cancer
in lab animals.There is another problem with safrole in that it is one of the principal
ingredients of MDMA, otherwise known as Molly or ecstasy.
Because the tree produces a component of the popular party drug, it is becoming threatened
and may disappear one day.
Despite the dangers posed from ingesting safrole, it is still used in a wide array of products
across the planet.
Some uses are not banned in the United States, but it is no longer included in foods.
If you have never been to Scotland or eaten their food, odds are you have heard of haggis
and want nothing to do with it.
Take it from the writer of this article, you are doing yourself a disservice!
Haggis is delicious!
Unfortunately, you cannot import it into the United States, thanks to a ban placed on the
dish in 1971 by the FDA.
They made the ban due to the presence of sheep lung, which constitutes less than 15 percent
of the total dish.
The FDA created the ban, which encompasses all lung meat, due to the potential presence
of stomach acid and phlegm.
The ban only exists on haggis imported from the United Kingdom, so there is nothing stopping
an intrepid eater from getting some homemade haggis in the States.
If you aren't ready to take the haggis challenge just yet, you may want to learn what it is:
Haggis is described as a pudding in the way only folks from the UK can call a meat dish
a pudding.
It consists of a sheep's heart, liver, and lung meat, which is then minced with various
spices, onions, and oats before it is stuffed into a sheep stomach.
It sounds disgusting but is arguably delicious, and many people in and out of Scotland enjoy
it.
Most Americans reading this may be scratching their heads wondering what casu marzu is,
and there's a reason for it which you've probably already guessed: It's banned in
the United States.
The traditional dish from Sardinia is made from sheep milk that contains an ingredient
the people at the FDA may have gagged at learning: live insect larvae, more commonly known as
maggots.
Yes, you read that correctly—when prepared in the traditional way, this dish contains
a cheeseload of maggots.Casu Marzu is made by placing a wheel of pecorino cheese outside
with a small portion of the rind removed.
This allows a fly, Piophila casei, to lay its eggs in the cheese.
Seeing as these little buggers can lay up to 500 eggs at a time, there are going to
be quite a few maggots inside.
As they mature and eat the cheese, the acid in their stomachs breaks down the cheese fat,
making the cheese incredibly soft.
The chef knows the dish is ready to be served when several thousand maggots are present.
It's up to the person eating the dish whether or not they want to eat the maggots whole
or by mashing them into a paste.
Many do this, while others flick them aside.
While casu marzu is certainly banned in the United States, it is also banned in the EU,
making it difficult to find . . . should you want to.
For most of the foods on this list, the United States government banned them for health reasons
or environmental concerns.
For the mirabelle plum, their reason is quite different, thanks to rules making the fruit
protected from importation due to its designation as a "protected origin" food.This designation
is the result of an agreement between the French and American governments aimed at helping
the French market.
As a regional delicacy in France, the country prefers to keep it in-house as a means of
attracting tourism.
This isn't unusual for France, which protects a number of regional delicacies, including
certain peppers and wines.Because of this agreement, it is nearly impossible to get
a mirabelle plum into the United States.
If you want one (and you do, they are delicious), you need to travel to the Lorraine region
of France.
You can even attend a two-week festival in honor of the fruit and its economic importance
to the region in the city of Metz.
They hold a mirabelle festival every August, when the fruit becomes ripe.
They do grow in other countries outside France but should be enjoyed when cultivated from
their native soil.
This food is so dangerous, it nearly killed Homer Simpson!
Fugu is the sushi cut from a pufferfish—you know, those cute fish that blow up at the
sense of danger.
These fish possess within their bodies an incredibly toxic chemical called tetrodotoxin,
a type of neurotoxin and one of the deadliest substances in the world.
Because of the danger from eating it, the United States slammed the ban hammer down
on serving it, but there are a few places you can get it.
In order to serve fugu, a special license is required, and in Japan, three years of
training are required before a chef can serve the dish.If you ever end up eating fugu but
then start to feel a little sick, you might have ingested some of the toxin.
Here's what you have to look forward to: some light dizziness followed by outright
exhaustion, headache, and nausea.
If you ingested a lethal dose, you will begin to have difficulty breathing and then enter
a state of total paralysis in which you are unable to do much but contemplate your poor
life choices.
When the body is completely paralyzed, your lungs cease to work, and asphyxiation occurs.
There is no antidote to tetrodotoxin, but your life can be saved with a stomach pump
and the ingestion of more charcoal than anyone would want to eat.
Shark fin soup is a traditional dish found mostly in China and Vietnam, but it has made
its way around the world since it originated sometime in the Song dynasty roughly 1,000
years ago.
The dish is considered a luxury item and is traditionally served only during special occasions.
It is also considerably expensive, costing anywhere between $50 and $100 per serving.
You may be picturing a bowl of broth with a shark fin sticking out of the liquid, but
it is made using the meat from the fin, which is dried and shredded after the skin is removed.
One of the reasons the dish has been so prominent in Chinese culture is due to the belief that
it helps prevent cancer, among many other purported benefits.Its use in Chinese medicine
has caused the demand for shark fins to skyrocket, which has caused a decline in a number of
shark species.
The biggest problem occurs when fishermen pull in sharks, slice off the fin, and throw
the bleeding fish back in the water to die.
In order to help conservation efforts, many nations have written laws and bans protecting
various species targeted for the dish.
While shark fin soup is banned in only a handful of states, the US has established a law requiring
that sharks caught in American waters be documented before a fin can go on sale.
By the end of 2017, efforts to completely ban the dish in the United States were underway.
Saving the best for last, Kinder Eggs are probably the most ridiculous ban the United
States has placed on an imported item.
For most of Europe, these candies are ubiquitous and a nostalgic part of most people's childhood.
Kinder Eggs, also called Kinder Surprise, are hollow, egg-shaped chocolates containing
a toy.
The toy comes in a yellow plastic shell, and it can be just about anything.
Whether they are promoting a film or are releasing their own line of toys, these can range from
small cars to intricate playsets, unique characters, or just about anything imaginable.
Sadly, it's the toy inside that the US government has set its sights on.[10]Thanks to the Federal
Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, food items cannot be sold if they contain a nonnutritive object.
Since there is very little nutrition in plastic toys, Kinder Eggs fell victim to the ban hammer.
In 1997, the Consumer Product Safety Commission reexamined the ban based on some eggs brought
illegally into the United States.
They determined the presence of small parts in the toys presented a health and safety
risk to small children under the age of three.
The fine for bringing a Kinder Egg into the United States is a whopping $2,500 per egg.
Ferrero, the company that makes Kinder Eggs, was able to create a modified version to market
in the US.
The new product started showing up in stores at the end of 2017, but they differ considerably
from their European counterpart and just aren't the same.
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