Or : What’s your beef?
Beef Products Inc.uses contaminant susceptible beef fat trimmings, which in the past had been used for pet food or cooking, oil to manufacture hamburger sold to the majority of burger-doodles and many schools.
The stuff that was formerly only safe for pet food is run through a process with ammonia and magically its food. The process so thorough it isn’t even subject to routine inspection!
Well...wash it with ammonia and call it inspected
Officials at the United States Department of Agriculture endorsed the company’s ammonia treatment, and have said it destroys E. coli “to an undetectable level.” They decided it was so effective that in 2007, when the department began routine testing of meat used in hamburger sold to the general public, they exempted Beef Products.
But government and industry records obtained by
The New York Times show that in testing for the school lunch program, E. coli and salmonella pathogens have been found dozens of times in Beef Products meat, challenging claims by the company and the U.S.D.A. about the effectiveness of the treatment. Since 2005, E. coli has been found 3 times and salmonella 48 times, including back-to-back incidents in August in which two 27,000-pound batches were found to be contaminated
The company says its processed beef, a mashlike substance frozen into blocks or chips, is used in a majority of the hamburger sold nationwide. But it has remained little known outside industry and government circles. Federal officials agreed to the company’s request that the ammonia be classified as a “processing agent” and not an ingredient that would be listed on labels.
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