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Re[2]: Disposal Contaminated Meat



     You can be assured that the 25 million pounds of potentially 
     contaminated meat will eventually recycle back into the human food 
     chain after reprocessing...


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Subject: Re: Disposal Contaminated Meat 
Author:  radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu at Internet
Date:    9/5/97 1:04 PM


At 12:01 PM 9/5/97 -0500, you wrote:
>The Hudson meat company's recall of 25 million pounds of hamburger meat 
>made me wonder how they would dispose the contaminated meat after they 
>collect. I did not see any statement of disposal method. Even if they 
>collect only one million pound of the contaminated meat, I feel it would 
>be a difficult task to distroy such amount of meat. I asked around and 
>noone had any idea. The nutrition dept. of this Uni. is going to find out 
>and let me know. If anyone is interestedin the isuue, let me know.  
     
     
Just a guess- reprocess it and sell it as high protein cattle feed.
     
Tyler M. Lembcke, M.S.
Radiation Oncology Physicist
St. Luke's Medical Center
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USA
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