Just in time for dinner: Clear Food Hot Dog Report

Our Results

Of the 345 hot dogs and sausages Clear Food analyzed for this report, 14.4% were problematic in some way. Problems included substitutions and hygienic issues. Substitution occurs when ingredients are added that do not show up on the label. Hygienic issues occur when some sort of non-harmful contaminant is introduced to the hot dog, in most cases, human DNA. Here’s what we found:

Substitution: We encountered a surprising number of substitutions or unexpected ingredients. We found evidence of meats not found on labels, an absence of ingredients advertised on labels, and meat in some vegetarian products.

Hygienic issues: Clear Food found human DNA in 2% of the samples. 2/3rds of the samples with human DNA were vegetarian products.

Human DNA found in 2% of samples

2/3 of the human DNA samples were vegetarian products.

Eeeek! This is clearly a problem with process contamination rather than with the, uh, feed stock.

I hope.

Then again, maybe they mean these products were made FROM vegetarians rather than FOR vegetarians.

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