Risky or Not?

782. Mechanically Tenderized Beef, Medium Rare


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A smiling man in a vibrant Hawaiian shirt sits at a wooden table, ready to eat a medium-rare steak. The steak is perfectly seared, pink in the center, and served with fries. Warm lighting and a simple background highlight the casual, relaxed dining moment.

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating mechanically tenderize steak medium rare. You might want to listen to the end, no really all the way.

Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼
Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼

  • Mechanically Tenderized Beef | Food Safety and Inspection Service
  • 778. Out of Date Simpson's Ham — Risky or Not?
  • Assessment of Risk Communication about Undercooked Hamburgers by Restaurant Servers - PubMed
  • Thermal Inactivation of Escherichia coli O157:H7 in Blade-Tenderized Beef Steaks Cooked on a Commercial Open-Flame Gas Grill - ScienceDirect
  • ScienceDirect.com | Science, health and medical journals, full text articles and books.
  • Beef Retailers Now Labeling Mechanically Tenderized Beef | Home
  • 2010 Food code Issue III 010 attachment
  • Consumer Response to Mechanically Tenderized Beef (MTB) and MTB Labels: An Exploratory Focus Group Study - ScienceDirect
  • Outbreak of Escherichia coli O157:H7 Infections Linked to Mechanically Tenderized Beef and the Largest Beef Recall in Canada, 2012 - ScienceDirect
  • And here are two articles that Don found later.

    • Findings of the Health Risk Assessment of Escherichia coli 0157 in Mechanically Tenderized Beef Products in Canada
    • Comparative Risk Assessment for Intact (Non-Tenderized) and
    • Non-Intact (Tenderized) Beef: Technical Report


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