Food industry defends carbon monoxide use in meat


	Food industry defends carbon monoxide use in meat

Hawkeye_84

11-14-2007 12:27 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/22d539b4-64b2-444d-89f2-da3a2de339b1/10DF1816-97DF-4F1F-9034-C49479A3E5A5/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071113/hl_nm/food_congress_meat_dc_2" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071113/hl_nm/food_congress_meat_dc_2" style="font-size: 11px;">news.yahoo.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071113/hl_nm/food_congress_meat_dc_2">Two of the biggest U.S. meat processors on Tuesday defended a packaging 
technique designed to keep meat looking fresh at grocery stores even as U.S. 
lawmakers criticized it as unsafe and misleading.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071113/hl_nm/food_congress_meat_dc_2">Packers use carbon monoxide to stabilize the color of meat</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071113/hl_nm/food_congress_meat_dc_2"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/news.yahoo.com/img/38E827AC-718A-4B79-8A01-CAA1F3915998" alt="An unidentified shopper looks over the selection of steaks at local grocery store in Chicago, December 24, 2003. Two of the biggest U.S. meat processors on Tuesday defended a packaging technique designed to keep meat looking fresh at grocery stores even as U.S. lawmakers criticized it as unsafe and misleading. (Frank Polich/Reuters)" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071113/hl_nm/food_congress_meat_dc_2">Democrats said the process misleads consumers by making the products look safer 
than they really are</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071113/hl_nm/food_congress_meat_dc_2">On Tuesday, discount retailer <SPAN class=yshortcuts id=lw_1195049772_3 
style="BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; CURSOR: hand; BORDER-BOTTOM: #0066cc 1px dashed">Target 
Corp</SPAN> asked USDA for approval to add a warning to the label of meat that 
has been treated with carbon monoxide sold in its stores.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071113/hl_nm/food_congress_meat_dc_2"><SPAN class=yshortcuts id=lw_1195049772_6 
style="BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; CURSOR: hand; BORDER-BOTTOM: #0066cc 1px dashed">Rep. 
Marsha Blackburn</SPAN>, a Tennessee Republican, defended the practice on 
grounds that it reduces the need for human handling and limits the chance of 
adding bacteria to the meat.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071113/hl_nm/food_congress_meat_dc_2">Officials at the <SPAN class=yshortcuts id=lw_1195049772_7 
style="BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; CURSOR: hand; BORDER-BOTTOM: #0066cc 1px dashed">Food 
and Drug Administration</SPAN> and U.S. Agriculture Department said they stand 
by the safety of the carbon monoxide practice </blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/10DF1816-97DF-4F1F-9034-C49479A3E5A5/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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