Tag: Food Safety

Ammonia in Your Beef

Filed in National by on January 5, 2010 23 Comments
Ammonia in Your Beef

And this isn’t even a story about Chinese made or processed goods.

Via the NYT — Beef trimmings were often sent off to be made into cooking oil or into pet food because the trimmings had a high risk of E. coli, salmonella and other food pathogens. A company called Beef Products, though, found a way around this — by treating this beef (gassing it basically) with ammonia. This ammoniated beef is then sold to school lunch programs and McDonalds and other processors where it is used as an extender product.

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Proof Elections Matter: Obama to Improve Food Safety

Filed in National by on March 14, 2009 13 Comments

In the Potemkin Village government of Dubya, there was, for all intents, no protection of the public’s food supply.  That will change, and change soon, according to this article in today’s Washington Post. In his Saturday morning address: President Obama announced new leadership and other changes today aimed at improving the safety of the U.S. […]

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