Has anyone else noticed that?

I’ve had many shiny specks in my snuff and I’m wondering what that stuff is, is it from the snuff machinary or metallic specks from the tins or something?

It’s come up a few times over the years, mostly with Fribourg and Treyer cans. I don’t think anyone ever really pinned the cause down but aluminium dust from degrading cans - ie on the shelf for years - and oxidising flavourings or salts have been suggested. I’m not aware of anyone ever taking it up with a manufacturer.

What snuff are you referring to and when and where did you buy it?

Also could be salt crystals. I’ve seen these in dehydrated maccoboy.

I really think it’s the oils some essential oils when dried out look the same shiney metalic type of crystals often iradescent too.

@Snuffster Quite a few snuffs.

I’ve had it in McChrystals, WoS, Toque, Samauel Gawith,etc. Strangely enough never had it in F&T. I think most people don’t notice it, as the light has to be reflecting on the snuff in order to see the specks and in my room the light reflects overhead of where I sit. It looks like glitter as sometimes it’s purple/blue/white specks.

I think there’s a thread on here about it as I remember someone making an Edward Cullen reference to it but I couldn’t find it

Thinking about it, I think someone should release a silver snuff. Dragun Flakes?

I’ve not heard of it happening with several snuffs in one collection, the previous posts have just referred to one type as memory serves,

I can’t see how the 4 snuff manufacturers all come to be selling products with a seemingly identical contaminant; the odds for that seem astronomical. Regarding ‘most people would not notice’ - that is unlikely in the extreme because something like this is exactly the type of thing Snuffhouse members would notice, as you have. Let’s take that and the extremely unlikely event of this happening across different brands as a given and you are left with:

Contamination from you or your environment

Contamination from the point of sale

Contamination in the warehouse

If they were all bought at the same time the last two would be possibles. If they were bought at different intervals it seems likely that the contamination is in your environment. Do you work with metals or something similar? My brother is a CSI and the metal dust he uses to lift prints is fiendishly fine and capable of getting everything around him contaminated.

Your old lady is looking to collect early on that insurance policy she just increased ?