By Rob Waugh
PUBLISHED: 14:26 GMT, 5 April 2012 | UPDATED: 14:28 GMT, 5 April 2012
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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So ot seems Maria. Maybe sewer rats are the way of the future. Instead of different 'lab foods'.
Is there anything healthy left to eat? or are we going to be left eating this?
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"
Cargill produces a very similar product that does not use Ammonia. In their process Citric Acid kills the bad bugs.
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