Meat industry defends itself over 'pink slime' controversy - by pointing out that same chemical is also used in cheese

Meat industry defends itself over 'pink slime' controversy - by pointing out that same chemical is also used in cheese

  • Caustic cleaning chemical is also used to turn milk to cheese
  • Similar chemicals used in chocolate and baked products
  • Kraft admits chemical is used in some of its foods

By Rob Waugh

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The controversy over ammonia-treated beef - or what critics dub ‘pink slime’ - broadened this week as it was revealed that the caustic cleaning chemical is also used in cheese.

Related compounds are also used in baked goods and chocolate.

Ammonia, known for its noxious odor, became a hot topic with the uproar over what the meat industry calls ‘finely textured beef’ and what a former U.S. government scientist first called ‘pink slime’.

 

The meat industry has been trying to raise awareness of other foods that contain ammonia, in response to what it has characterized as an unfair attack on a safe and healthy product.   

For example, ammonia compounds are used as leavening agents in baked goods and as an acidity controller in cheese and sometimes chocolate.    

‘Ammonia's not an unusual product to find added to food,’ Gary Acuff, director of Texas A&M University's Center for Food Safety, told a recent press conference hosted by Beef Products Inc. ‘We use ammonia in all kinds of foods in the food industry.’   

After critics highlighted the product on social media websites and showed unappetizing photos on television, calling it ‘pink slime,’ the nation's leading fast-food chains and supermarkets spurned the product, even though U.S. public health officials deem it safe to eat.

FULL STORY: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2125617/Pink-slime-M...

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Comment by Ragnarok on April 6, 2012 at 2:10am

So ot seems Maria. Maybe sewer rats are the way of the future. Instead of different 'lab foods'.

Comment by Maria De Wind on April 6, 2012 at 2:07am

Is there anything healthy left to eat? or are we going to be left eating this?

Comment by Central Scrutinizer on April 5, 2012 at 10:28pm

already knew this....Yum foods is notorious for it...one of their company's, Pizza Hut, uses that silicon, ammonia cheese as well, Stay away from the nasty Hut ;)

they own Taco Hell too...where their beef contains real beef.....all 18% of it ;)

"Run to the toilet"

Comment by ArchAngel on April 5, 2012 at 8:18pm

Cargill produces a very similar product that does not use Ammonia. In their process Citric Acid kills the bad bugs.

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