Window cleaning chemical injected into fast food hamburger
meat




Tuesday,
January 05, 2010
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
Editor of
NaturalNews.com (See all
articles...)










(NaturalNews)
If you're in the beef business, what do you do with all the extra cow
parts and trimmings that have traditionally been sold off for use in pet
food? You scrape them together into a pink mass, inject them with a
chemical to kill the e.coli, and sell them to fast food restaurants to
make into hamburgers.

That's what's been happening all across the
USA with beef sold to McDonald's, Burger King, school lunches and other
fast food restaurants, according to a New York Times article. The beef is injected with ammonia, a
chemical commonly used in glass cleaning and window cleaning
products.

This is all fine with the USDA, which endorses the procedure
as a way to make the hamburger beef "safe" enough to eat. Ammonia kills
e.coli, you see, and the USDA doesn't seem to
be concerned with the fact that people are eating ammonia in their
hamburgers.

This ammonia-injected beef comes from a company
called Beef Products, Inc. As NYT reports, the federal school lunch program used a whopping 5.5
million pounds of ammonia-injected beef trimmings from this company in
2008. This company reportedly developed the idea of using ammonia to
sterilize beef before selling it for human consumption.

Aside from
the fact that there's ammonia in the hamburger meat, there's another problem with this
company's products: The ammonia doesn't always kill the pathogens.
Both e.coli and salmonella have been found contaminating the cow-derived
products sold by this company.

This came as a shock to the USDA,
which had actually exempted the company's products from pathogen testing
and product recalls. Why was it exempted? Because the ammonia injection
process was deemed so effective that the meat products were thought to be
safe beyond any question.
What else is in there?
As the NYT
reports, "The company says its processed beef, a mashlike substance frozen
into blocks or chips, is used in a majority of the hamburger sold
nationwide. But it has remained little known outside industry and
government circles. Federal officials agreed to the company's request that
the ammonia be classified as a 'processing agent' and not an ingredient
that would be listed on labels."

Fascinating. So you can inject a
beef product with a chemical found in glass cleaning products and simply
call it a "processing agent"