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    Disgusting things found in hot dogs: confidential USDA complaints revealed

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    Scrap metal, glass, and wait, are those...eyes?-
    Animal paste, sodium nitrate, parts of a cow you don't want to think about: the ingredients in a delicious hot dog are ... more 
    Photo by: thinkstock photos
    Scrap metal, glass, and wait, are those...eyes?-
    Animal paste, sodium nitrate, parts of a cow you don't want to think about: the ingredients in a delicious hot dog are already hard to stomach when they're made properly. But when there are flaws in the frank factory, it's enough to make you never want to eat another dog in your life. New York Times reporter Stephen Rex Brown filed a Freedom of Information act in 2009, and just received confidential case files from the USDA with 64 individual complaints from people who found foreign objects embedded in their wieners from 2007 through 2009. Not only were the findings disturbing, the documented investigations by the USDA didn't always suggest the best follow-through. We reviewed the files, which Brown made public here, and highlighted some of the more stomach-curdling complaints. (WARNING: before clicking through the gallery make sure your lunch is completely digested). less 
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    Tue, Nov 8, 2011 5:43 PM EST
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