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USDA Reclassifies Pink Slime as Ground Beef
Key Excerpts from Article on Website of MSN


MSN, February 12, 2019
Posted: February 25th, 2019
https://www.msn.com/en-us/foodanddrink/foodnews/usda-reclass...

The inner-workings of a beef processing plant in Dakota Dunes, South Dakota, might not sound like compelling national news, but in 2012, ABC changed that with two little words: pink slime. As you probably recall, the news outlet questioned Beef Products, Inc. (BPI) about its ground beef filler known as lean finely textured beef (LFTI), utilizing the pejorative term pink slime in the process. The backlash from the report hit BPIs bottom line hard, despite the fact that they maintained that LFTI is safe and made from 100 percent beef, and so the South Dakotan company sued ABC News. The news organization eventually settled out of court ... paying nine figures to BPI to end the whole mess. BPI survived the ordeal and are back in the news again for guess what lean finely textured beef. But dont call it LFTI. And definitely dont call it pink slime. According to Beef Magazine, the USDA has given its approval for BPI to call lean finely textured beef simply ground beef. We approached USDA about the possibility of reclassifying our product, Nick Ross, BPI vice president of engineering, [said] After reviewing BPIs submission of a new product and new production process, [the United States Department of Agricultures Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS)] determined that the product meets the regulatory definition of ground beef ... and may be labeled accordingly, a FSIS spokesperson [confirmed]. But for consumers, the change wont really mean that much.

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