Yeah. Water is an ingredient in about all window cleaners too. Should we ban water?
Anhydrous ammonia in a food process is not the same thing as blue ink and isopropyl alcohol and ammonium hydroxide.
But why be honest when hysterical is more fun?
I was being serious... some of my favorite snacks are things with weird chemicals in them
I can guess the government answer. More burdensome regulations that do nothing to actually protect the food supply and the consumer but only serve to make it harder for law abiding businesses to make and sell their product.
I grant you that it isn’t the same thing (in your example above).
But to exempt them from the USDA inspections? No factory processing should ever be exempt just because they do things a certain way. Contamination can always occur, from unepected sources. You could have a great process, where nothing gets contaminated on the line, but have your packaging at the end of the line be contaminated so your final product goes out contaminated. Physical line inspections, which are lax now at best due to limited ability to inspect, need to be done.
Exactly, Ammonia is simply 1 Hydrogen molecule and three hyrdoget molecules... while it certainly can cause issues if you breath high levels in or ingest high levels.. it has a boiling point of -28F.
They are injecting the beef with it to kill pathogens, the reality is, I doubt 100% you can find any trace levels of ammonia in a piece of cooked beef that’s been injected with ammonia.
Its evaporated away before the beef has fully thawed, let alone been fully cooked.
This is definitely a fear mongering article to me, nothing more.
Dihydrogen monoxide can be some nasty stuff