'Pink slime' in your meat? Labels to tell you, USDA says
Pink slime or lean finely textured beef (LFTB) or boneless
lean beef trimmings (BLBT), is a beef-based food additive which are added
mostly to the ground beef. This compound is not completely safe since it is
treated with ammonia gas in the producing process. In this article, it tells us
that 700 million to 800 million pounds of LFTB are added to 10billion pounds of
ground beef consumed in the U.S. each year. However; some research shows that
LFTB is not unsafe to be consumed. Thus, U.S. Department of Agriculture has
agreed to allow several meat producers to list it on the package labels.
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