A woman in Oregon discovered a mouse bone in a box of Life Cereal, WALB reported.
Shea Boman-Smead of Eugene, Ore. said she was eating a bowl of Life when she decided it didn't look normal.
"As I was taking a drink, I noticed there was something long in there, and it was not shaped like the cereal," Boman-Smead said, who eventually realized it was a bone. "I thought, there's absolutely no way."
She subsequently contacted Quaker, the manufacturer of the cereal, and they gave her instructions on what to do next.
"You send us the box of cereal and what you found in the zip lock bag. We're going to process it and then we'll let you know," Quaker reportedly told her.
Boman-Smead, 25, doesn't think their verbal apology and lab test is enough.
"I felt like that was something that needs... it was a concern," she said. When asked if she would purchase the cereal in the future, she denied.
"No, unfortunately. It's my favorite cereal," she said.
According to the Food and Drug Administration, animal droppings, insect heads, and even a certain amount of mold are harmless to ingest and therefore allowed in our food.
Potato chips can be sold as long as 94 percent of the chips are not fully rotten. In addition, noodles can have up to 4.5 rodent hairs and cocoa beans can contain up to 10 mg of mammal waste per pound.
The FDA also doesn't have a limit at all when it comes to hair since they deem it completely harmless.
Factories around the world have been making headlines after consumers make disturbing finds in their products. Just last month, Brazil banned Heinz-made ketchup after they found bottles infested with rodent hair. After the discovery, several investigations were launched in the Mexican factory where they were produced.
