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Tenderized meat now labeled

Who can forget the beef recall of 2012 that sent millions of kilos of meat to the trash? It’s surely not the Canadians who found themselves in the hospital after eating some of the bad batch. New labelling allows consumers to see whether their meat has been mechanically tenderized. The mechanical te

By Whitney Neilson

Last updated on May 04, 23

Posted on Sep 05, 14

4 min read

Tenderized meat now labeled
Kevin Stemmler shows a New York cut of meat that isn’t mechanically tenderized, a process that has caused some controversy since the 2012 XL Foods beef recall. [Whitney Neilson / The Observer]
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Whitney Neilson is a former full-time journalist / photographer at The Observer.

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