Wormy cashew nuts

Occasionally cashews and other nuts being imported become contaminated by insects. The larvae being inside the cotyledon may be hidden in the confection or mixed nuts, and enter the channel of trade. They may be dead or alive and active. The nuts are subject to recall and labeled oil stock and can be bought at very low cost. The oil may be extracted with an expeller, refined and used in foods, and the presscake is suitable for stock feed. The solution to this problem is better fumigation of the fresh nuts at the point of origin, which in this case is Bombay, India. 

Within a life-span, an operation that was profitable at the beginning may not be economically feasible at the end. It is hoped that new sources of supply of nuts and seed, new cultivars through genetic breeding, improved technologies through research, and changes in economic conditions will extend the area of economic feasibility of oil recovery from nuts and seed far beyond where it now stands. 

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