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October 12, 2009

Consumers need to know the rules of meat safety

Posted: 03:14 PM ET

By JEFFREY WEISS / The Dallas Morning News
jweiss@dallasnews.com

Tracey Williams is used to her friends' questions about food safety: The recent MBA graduate from Southern Methodist University also sports a master's degree in meat science from Texas A&M.

Recent alarming reports about the safety of ground beef have made the questions even more timely.

Williams' bottom line: "I think the average consumer just needs to know how to properly prepare meat," she said. "And I think most people don't follow all the steps."

Even so, she buys her burger meat in a store where she knows it's ground fresh daily from sources she can identify – which can be impossible to do with most commercially prepared hamburger.

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Jessie from Auckland, NZ   October 13th, 2009 6:43 am ET

Yes, people just don't realize or are unaware of the dangers regarding meat. Thankyou for this article for highlighting these dangers.


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