What nasty chemical has it been reported that restaurants like McDonald's and Burger King use on their beef patties?

serpa

I hope it ain't true. Two All Beef Patties, Special Sauce, Ammonia ... Ammonia? While you were relaxing between Christmas and New Year’s, the New York Times published this horrifying piece of investigative journalism on a company called Beef Products Inc. Seems the folks at BPI, applying their good old American ingenuity, thought, “Hey, we’ve got all these fatty trimmings so disgusting they’re normally put into pet food. Is there any way we could shove them in a hamburger and feed them to kids?” So they did. In order to kill all the salmonella and e.coli, they gassed the trimmings with ammonia before sending them off to be put into hamburgers earmarked for McDonald’s, Burger King, and lots and lots of schools. Problem was (apart from the fact that the meat smelled like ammonia), the process didn’t really kill all the salmonella and e. coli. Nevertheless, the Department of Agriculture was so impressed with BPI’s ammonia gassing method, “that in 2007, when the department began routine testing of meat used in hamburger sold to the general public, they exempted Beef Products.” Heckuva job, Aggie. http://www.prospect.org/csnc/blogs/tapped_archive?month=01&year=2010&base_name=two_all_beef_patties_special_s Jan 05 10, 10:38 PM

star_gazer

I'll have a big mac and large fries, no pickels, extra ketchup, and with extra ammonia please. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammonia http://www.walletpop.com/blog/2010/01/04/ill-have-a-burger-and-fries-with-everything-hold-the-ammonia/?icid=main|htmlws-main-n|dl5|link5|http%3A%2F%2Fwww.walletpop.com%2Fblog%2F2010%2F01%2F04%2Fill-have-a-burger-and-fries-with-everything-hold-the-ammonia%2F Jan 06 10, 12:25 AM

star_gazer

Ammonia is listed as a Highly Hazardous Chemical. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Highly_Hazardous_Chemicals Jan 06 10, 6:33 AM

star_gazer

Ammonia is also a powerful industrial strength disenfectant used to clean the most filthy floors. http://www.ehow.com/how_5071204_clean-tile-floor-ammonia.html And they are putting this poison on the hamburgers in your child's Happy Meal. Jan 06 10, 11:23 PM