No, this is an urban legend. You would be hard-pressed to find one case of a spider inadvertently falling into a humans mouth. While it is true some Spiders often leave their dwelling at night to hunt, if one happened to approach your mouth, your breath would scare it away. If you are concerned about eating spiders, you should be more worried about the amount of spiders and insects you consume in your food. While there is no law that prohibits small parts of spiders and other arthropods, there is a limit to the amount the food item can contain. Produce tends to contain the most arthropod parts, as the bugs are often sitting on the plant as it is being harvested. All in all, you should be more worried about spiders in your food than spiders crawling into your mouth.
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