Contaminated Meat is in the Supermarket, ABC News Reports

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“Contaminated Meat is in the Supermarket, ABC News Reports”

ABC News is out with a story today that beef contaminated with toxic heavy metals, pesticides and antibiotics is making its way into the nation's supermarkets.

The story reports:

Phyllis K. Fong, the Agriculture Department's inspector general, looked at how beef is tested for harmful substances. According to her new report, inspectors charged with checking cattle for disease and meat for contaminants were, "unable to determine if meat has unacceptable levels of... potentially hazardous substances [and do] not test for pesticides... determined to be of high risk." The inspectors also failed to test beef for 23 pesticides, the report says.

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Posted: April 14, 2010 - 7:52 pm

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1.)candybushpilot
April 17, 2010
9:32.49 am

“teacher”

mr friedman the new canadian owner of the kosher postville iowa slaughterhouse is PROUD of it...he is also proud of canadas 50,000 baby seal clubbing hunt thats going on right now!!!...lets stop this greed of meat people!!!

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