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...material in her course will not be altered to fit Core requirements-instead, she said, "I wanted to beef it up in a lot of ways...
...other words, will beef processors feel free to toss anything and everything into ground beef - because they know it will be zapped clean...
...While the beef industry has legitimate concerns, according to Catherine Donnelly, professor of nutrition and food sciences at the University of Vermont, consumers' concerns also are very real. "When you're looking at food testing for schools, you're seeing a group that's particularly susceptible to food-borne illnesses. In this situation, the meat industry really needs to look beyond financial considerations...
...Ground beef can be particularly problematic in terms of illnesses," says Donnelly, "because it comes in contact with lots of machinery during the grinding process. So it's much more likely to be contaminated internally than, say, a steak, which is only exposed externally to bacteria...
...order to keep ground beef safe, Donnelly stresses the importance of a sanitary preparation process. But, she says, "controls on the cooking end of things - like adhering to specific temperatures - can be shaky, so it's safer to have stringent controls throughout the entire production end of things...