“Pink Slime” Manufacturer Suspends Some Plants

The public disgust and outrage over the usage of “Pink Slime” in food products led the manufacturer of the ammonia filled beef filer to suspend all but one of its plants.

Amid growing concerns, Beef Products Inc. suspended all of its plants, except the headquarters, in order to develop a strategy for rebuilding business, according to the Associated Press.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture decided that school districts should stop using it in lunches and many restaurant and retail chains, such as McDonald’s and Burger King, no longer use the product.

Pink Slime is a nickname for scraps of slaughtered cow meat that are defatted, compressed into blocks, and exposed to ammonium hydroxide gas to kill bacteria such as salmonella and E. coli.

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