One time on Usenet, "jmcquown" > said:

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> I wouldn't have believed it either, but stuff does happen. Still, you'd
> think if someone got their finger cut off they'd have yelled bloody murder
> and the line would be shut down.

IIRC, there is some question of where exactly the finger came from -- it
may not have been an industrial accident.

> My brother opened a bag of Doritos chips years ago and found a big long
> strip of metal in it; I witnessed it. Something had fallen off the
> machinery on the production line and got sealed into the bag. So much for
> "packed by weight, not by volume"; that hunk of metal weighed at least as
> much as the chips in the bag.

Yup, stuff can definitely fall in. DH manages machine maintenance for
a food production facility, and has told me a few stories. Fortunately,
they (and probably many others) use magnets and metal detectors before
shipping out their products...

--
J.J. in WA ~ mom, vid gamer, novice cook ~
"You still haven't explained why the pool is
filled with elf blood." - Frylock, ATHF