For John Soules Foods Inc., maybe a good deed finally did go unpunished.
The nation’s leading fajita processing and marketing company in Tyler, TX and the U.S. District Attorney for the Eastern District of Texas,
Continue Reading Meat Co. Settles With Government Over Beef Trim Trip-up
About a year before Lean Finely Textured Beef, or pink slime, would garner national attention — and outrage among consumers on social media — the product’s maker, Beef Product Inc, paid a visit to the
Continue Reading LFTB-maker Met With White House Staff in 2011
Just days before the agency is set to begin testing raw beef trimmings for more strains of disease-causing E. coli, the Food Safety and Inspection Service issued a detailed response to comments it has received
Continue Reading FSIS Set to Implement Non-O157 E. coli Policy Next Week
The ground beef product that was recalled last week by two South Carolina-based manufacturers was imported from Australia and contaminated before it arrived, according to one of the importers.
After testing conducted by the
Continue Reading Contaminated Beef Mars Australia’s Usually Clean Track Record
We just might be witnessing a watershed change in USDA attitudes regarding testing for E. coli O157:H7, corrective actions subsequent to adverse lab test results, and tracebacks to the true source of contamination.
Due
To steal a phrase from former President George W. Bush, USDA’s meat inspectors are “doing a heck of a job” knocking down E. coli at big beef plants.
With a little constructive criticism around that
Continue Reading Sampling Report Praises Beef Industry & USDA
Last week, Iowa’s Gov. Terry Branstad and U.S. Rep. Steve King called for a congressional hearing on the media coverage that fueled a public backlash against ‘pink slime,’ Beef Products Inc.’ s Lean Finely Textured
The story of Beef Products Inc.’s Lean Finely Textured Beef isn’t new, and neither is the nickname “pink slime.” Yet after more than 10 years on the market, the beef additive had never received the
Over the past several weeks, thousands of articles, blog posts, tweets and even Facebook statuses have weighed in on the debate over Lean Finely Textured Beef (LFTB), now commonly known as “pink slime.” One place
Continue Reading Slimegate: Should USDA Require Labeling for LFTB?
In recent weeks, slimeslinging over Lean Finely Textured Beef (LFTB) has reached fever pitch. Now public criticism of the stuff has heated up enough to send one meat company into bankruptcy.
Ground beef producer AFA
Continue Reading Weight of Pink Slime Furor Sends One Company Under
