More stores put an end to pink slime
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March 24, 2012, Saturday
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THE biggest US supermarket chain, Kroger Co, will stop buying a beef product critics call "pink slime," bowing to consumer pressure one day after the nation's No. 2 and 3 grocers rejected the product.
Safeway Inc and Supervalu Inc said on Wednesday that they would also stop buying the product, which the meat industry calls finely textured beef.
"Our customers have expressed their concerns that the use of lean finely textured beef ... is something they do not want in their ground beef," Kroger said in a statement.
"As a result, Kroger will no longer purchase ground beef containing lean finely textured beef."
Internet news source The Daily reported recently that 3.2 million kilograms of the product would appear in school lunches this spring.
The US Department of Agriculture at first said finely-textured beef was safe, then last week announced it was allowing school districts to opt out of using the beef.
McDonald's stopped putting the meat into its hamburgers in August after activists, including celebrity chef Jamie Oliver, drew attention to it.
Finely textured beef is made from beef trimmings heated to soften fat and then spun in a centrifuge to separate the meat. A puff of ammonium hydroxide is used to kill bacteria.
Safeway Inc and Supervalu Inc said on Wednesday that they would also stop buying the product, which the meat industry calls finely textured beef.
"Our customers have expressed their concerns that the use of lean finely textured beef ... is something they do not want in their ground beef," Kroger said in a statement.
"As a result, Kroger will no longer purchase ground beef containing lean finely textured beef."
Internet news source The Daily reported recently that 3.2 million kilograms of the product would appear in school lunches this spring.
The US Department of Agriculture at first said finely-textured beef was safe, then last week announced it was allowing school districts to opt out of using the beef.
McDonald's stopped putting the meat into its hamburgers in August after activists, including celebrity chef Jamie Oliver, drew attention to it.
Finely textured beef is made from beef trimmings heated to soften fat and then spun in a centrifuge to separate the meat. A puff of ammonium hydroxide is used to kill bacteria.
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