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FDA Is Urged to Ban Carbon-Monoxide-Treated Meat

Date: February 20, 2006

Author: Rick Weiss

QUOTE: ...use of carbon monoxide as a "pigment fixative" is alarming consumer advocates and others...Those critics are challenging the Food and Drug Administration and the nation's powerful meat industry, saying the agency violated its own rules by allowing the practice without a formal evaluation of its impact on consumer safety.

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• Consumer Federation of America (CFA)
• European Union, The (EU)
• Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
• National Cattlemen's Beef Association (NCBA)
• Precept Foods
• Tyson Foods
• Washington Post Newspaper

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• Businesses & Organizations
  • Industry-Specific Issues
    • Food / Restaurant

• Government & Politics / History
  • Government (General)
    • Government Regulation
      • Business Regulation

• Health & Medicine
  • Public Safety/Health

• North America
  • United States of America/USA

• Worldwide

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