Sentences with phrase «hydroxide treated»

The USDA's announcement on Thursday that school districts will be able to opt out of an ammonium - hydroxide treated ground beef filler known as both Lean Finely Textured Beef (LFTB) and «pink slime» is not exactly inspiring confidence.

And it doesn't mean that adding ammonium - hydroxide treated low grade beef scraps to ground beef makes our ground beef safer.

Not exact matches

A spokesman for the USDA, which runs the school lunch program, said lean finely textured beef is still beef, though it is separated from fat through heat and centrifuge and treated with ammonium hydroxide to kill bacteria.

Inside a third machine the material was treated with ammonia hydroxide gas to eliminate bacteria.

The lean meat is then treated with ammonium hydroxide or citric acid to kill bacteria.

And while its announcement described the meat product, treated with ammonium hydroxide to kill pathogens, as «safe and nutritious,» it also acknowledged that others may not feel comfortable serving it.

When BPI argues that use of BLBT «increases the safety of products» it seems to be coming dangerously close to making the claim that by mixing the ammonia - hydroxide - treated substance into regular ground beef, its mere presence reduces pathogens in the rest of the product.

Well, in point of fact, the undisclosed presence of ammonia - hydroxide - treated bovine connective tissues in 70 % of the nation's ground beef is hardly a «myth.»

What if you have beef trimmings and residuals from a cattle which has been organically fed and certified and you treat this cattle's «organic» trimmings within a Organically certified facility (which obviously uses ammonium hydroxide), and since ammonium hydroxide is a by product and not an actual ingredient (according to our friends in USDA), it is very well possible that the meat labelled «USDA certified Organic» might also have the pink slime (or organic pink slime, if I am say).

The controversial rendered meat sludge that is treated with ammonia hydroxide to kill pathogens was dropped from fast food chains in recent years but is still purchased by the U.S. Department of Agriculture for institutional feeding programs including school meals.

As an added bonus, it is treated tiny amounts of ammonium hydroxide to make it safer to eat.

These microspheres were then treated with a solution of potassium hydroxide and heated by increasing the temperature in a series of jumps from 450 to 800 C.

The same carbon nanotubes that make up the skeleton of the 1D battery can also accelerate the conversion of dissolved oxygen into hydroxide ions, a process that harms battery effectiveness if left uncontrolled but as a stand - alone process boasts therapeutic potential for treating cancer and bacterial infections.

Crews are treating the water in these ponds with caustic soda (sodium hydroxide) and lime (calcium oxide), which are very basic in pH. The goal is to reduce the acidity of the water.

2) The corn is treated with limewater (calcium hydroxide), which is naturally inorganic, thus can not be certified organic.

She was aggressively treated with IV fluids (as best she could tolerate in her anuric state), aluminum hydroxide, sucralfate, pepcid, maropitant, enalapril, hydralazine, ampicillin and furosemide.

Made by grinding together connective tissue and beef scraps normally destined for dog food and rendering, BPI's Lean Beef Trimmings are then treated with ammonia hydroxide, a process that kills pathogens such as salmonella and E. coli.