The warehouse I worked in had a rodent infestation, they didn't eat the edible packing peanuts as far as I could tell though. -- never saw any with bites out of them and they didn't noticeably disappear.

As an aside, don't drink from beer/pop cans without washing the tops.

I'm sure theres a joke about Carling/Budweiser/whatever here.

Edit, got it: Don't do that, you'll wipe away all the flavour!

Esprit de l'escalier

Oh that last sentence brought too many imaginative images of me drinking from cans. I will forget i ever read that.

please elaborate on why not? I would think they'd have to be relatively sterile. Boxes are stacked flat, can tops must be in a pringles style stack until they're assembled into a can.

Where are they contaminated?

I remember a story going around about people dying from rat urine on soda cans [1], but the veracity of the claim is questionable.

[1] https://www.hoax-slayer.net/leptospirosis-death-warning-rat-...

For soda/beer cans, wipe a damp cloth on them and try to get into that little moat around the top. It's almost always filthy.

I don't work in an industry where I encounter bulk packing materials day-to-day. I would assume the answer is "yes"? Any large warehouse for any type of product using any type of packing material probably suffers rodent risk. At least, any warehouse I've ever been in.

I use these. While theoretically they can attract pests, I've never noticed any biological activity associated with them.