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Wonderful Brand Pistachios WARNING LABEL FOR BUGS

Wonderful Brand Pistachios WARNING LABEL FOR BUGS

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Started by Anonymous 13 years, 1 month ago
This is a petition in order to make it a point to the Wonderful Pistachio brand that a warning label needs to be placed on the Pistachio package to warn customers that worms are likely to be in the food product because the Wonderful Pistachio Company cannot FOR FACT keep out 100% of these worms. See here from the message I was sent in response to me finding worms in a bag of Wonderful Pistachios (my two children had eaten from this same bag, which really had upset me because of NO WARNING LABEL it is that Wonderful Pistachio brand gave me no choice in choosing to give my children a bug free food, they made the choice for me) That is what makes me so determined to have this company put a WARNING LABEL on their product. In this letter they knowingly say they cannot keep 100% of worms out of their product, well than I say warn us consumers of that information on your packaging! SO LET'S PETITION IT :) WHAT I WAS SENT FROM WONDERFUL PISTACHIO IN RESPONSE TO MY COMPLAINT.......... Dear Miss Alicia Howell: Thank you for contacting Paramount Farms concerning your recent purchase of Wonderful Pistachios. We're sorry to hear you found the product to be infested. We'll explain what likely happened and, hopefully, leave you in a better place towards our product and all types of pistachios in general. The infestation you observed was likely the navel orange worm, a natural field pest. The worm can enter our product while it is still in the orchards. To minimize infestation, our farming operation has an Integrated Pest Management program (IPM) in place as a part of its Good Agricultural Practices. After the pistachios are harvested, they go through a series of mechanical sorting processes as well as a visual inspection step to remove any nuts with insect damage. The nuts are then roasted and packaged. Because the insect is hidden inside the shell, it is difficult to detect without destroying the pistachio itself. Although it's not commercially possible to remove 100% of insect-damaged pistachios, we do our best. Thankfully, these pests do not pose any health risks because of the roasting process but we do understand the thought of their presence is unpleasant. Thank you for taking time to report this matter. We are grateful you supplied us with the lot information for our records and thank you for doing so. Once again, we apologize for any inconvenience you may have encountered. We want you to know we feel a deep commitment to the people who buy our products and we'll be in touch by regular mail with a coupon for a fresh bag. Sincerely, Paramount Farms Consumer Care Find other useful information at http://getcrackin.com Reference Number:000062248A

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Reached 1,000 supporters

April 19, 2018

June 9, 2017

I have been staring at the bag in my pantry again while trying to figure out how they think this is acceptable without telling the rest of us. It is honestly so frustrating because I keep hearing from so many of you who have found the exact same thing yet we are all just supposed to stay quiet while they know exactly what is happening in those orchards.

May 5, 2015

One hundred signatures on this thing already which honestly blows my mind because I just started this out of pure frustration after that awful letter from the company. It makes me feel less crazy knowing so many of you are just as disgusted by the idea of hidden bugs in snack bags as I am.

Reached 100 supporters

May 4, 2015

1,039 Comments

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Vivian Diaz
2 years ago Featured

I haven’t had a bag of Wonderful Pistachios that did not have worms. Company response that this is normal for pistachios is unacceptable. I’ve never had worms in any other brand. People have a right to know your pistachios are wormy. Put it on the label.

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Connie
5 years ago Featured

I found two worms thus far. The second one had cottony material in the shell. I have pictures of both and it’s a brown worm that’s burrowed through the nut in both situations. It’s extremely unsettling thinking how easy it would be to eat one of these beasts.

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Linsey Rodriguez
8 years ago Featured

I had a horrible experience today finding a maggot filled pistachio, which I chewed (thinking it was burnt) before spitting it out to find dead maggots. Absolutely disgusting. A warning would have been nice because then I would know to be more careful.

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Jackson Ray
9 years ago Featured

It's so revulting that the FDA doesn't require this label when there are so many bugs in pistachio's! I didn't used to pay attention, but upon further inspection you can tell from the outside if it has a bug. I had eaten them before!! This needs to happen

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Caroline garcia
10 years ago Featured

I have seen these worms in 2 separate bags of pistachios. Needless to say, I was so disgusted and my son was about to eat it too! I'd like for these people to eat their worm-infested nut and see if they like it and can say straight face that it's harmless

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Marc Yeater
10 years ago Featured

I also found a nasty bug in a bag of wonderful pistachios and once I called found out that there has been a recall for salemanella and our bag was one that should have been taken off the shelf and of course my wife my kids have all been eating them

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Marisa Vega
2 months ago

I found so many in a small bag

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Bradley
4 months ago

Just bit into a nasty pistachio, wasn’t looking as I was eating them, and immediately knew something was off. Looked in the other half of the shell and there was a maggot. I spat out a mixture of black/brown substance.

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