If you're trying to determine whether the ground chuck you buy in the grocery store contains so-called pink ... a liquid," explains Schaffner, "and then uses a process to separate the lean portion ...

Would there be nothing left and only liquid fat in the pan or just ... the product is never sold or eaten as 100% lean beef trimmings (aka: pink slime). The USDA says when it is mixed with regular ...

A meat product known as "boneless lean beef trimmings" (BLBT) or "lean finely textured beef," pejoratively referred to as "pink slime," is often confused with mechanically separated meat, although ...

Two years ago, beef processors cut back sharply on producing what they call "lean, finely textured beef" after the nasty nickname for it, "pink slime," caught on in the media. Now, higher beef ...

Last month, Beef Products Inc., the first and principal producer of lean/pink/textured/slimy beef, filed a defamation claim against ABC (along with that microbiologist and a former USDA inspector ...

Before the pink slime issue exploded last spring, schools were serving up about 7 million pounds of the product per year. And it’s not likely that the product will ever get back to its previous ...

Rather than recapitulate the horror that is your favorite form of “lean finely textured beef ... The only difference is the household cleaner is a liquid and pink slime is treated with ...