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	Advanced meat recovery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Advanced meat recovery (AMR) is a slaughterhouse process by which residual meat trimmings are extracted from bones and other carcass materials.
		This new machinery separates meat from bone by scraping, shaving, or pressing the meat from the bone without breaking or grinding the bone.
		AMR has been the subject of controversy recently, as some fear that it increases the likelihood of BSE (mad cow disease) contamination of the meat.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Advanced_meat_recovery (215 words)

	Meat Stripper Gets Third Degree
		Advanced meat recovery systems squeeze cow bones to force out any meat still clinging to them after the animal is slaughtered.
		Meat processors have also reconfigured their facilities to switch from manual to AMR technology, and would have to hire new labor if the technology were banned, which is what many consumer groups want.
		The meat industry says the amount of central nervous system matter that has made it into the food chain since advanced meat recovery was introduced in 1994 is small, and the chances of humans getting sick from it are even smaller.
	www.organicconsumers.org /madcow/stripper11904.cfm (1478 words)

	Wired News: Meat Stripper Gets Third Degree
		But another question entirely is whether AMR could contribute to the spread of mad cow disease, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy, the brain-wasting disease that devastated the beef industry in the United Kingdom in the 1990s.
		In addition, meat processors have reconfigured their facilities to switch from manual to AMR technology, and would have to hire new labor if the technology were banned, which is what many consumer groups want.
		After the isolated BSE-infected cow was found in the United States, the USDA strengthened its regulations for advanced meat recovery, adding, for example, dorsal root ganglia, a peripheral nerve tissue near the spinal cord, to the list of types of tissue not allowed to enter AMR machines when the cow is older than 30 months.
	www.wired.com /news/medtech/0,1286,61847,00.html?tw=wn_story_top5 (863 words)

	Agenda 21 \| Cattle Drive: What's in that burger you're eating? Every hamburger has meat and fat from 50 to 100 cattle, ...
		In just 4 ounces, a typical burger patty is packed with the meat and fat of 50 to 100 cattle from multiple states and two to four countries.
		Though officials thought meat from that Holstein posed almost no risk, they started a meat recall that covered 38,000 pounds once that cow was ground and mixed with others.
		Raised on hay and pasture, their leaner meat can be mixed with trimmings from beef cattle to create a cheap, high-protein, homogenous mix.
	www.amerikanexpose.com /agenda21/cattle.html (1314 words)

	CIDRAP >> USDA to test 'advanced meat recovery' products for spinal cord tissue
		Under the new directive, AMR-processed meat samples will be laboratory-tested for the presence of spinal cord tissue, he said.
		AMR systems enable beef processors to mechanically remove remnants of muscle tissue from beef carcasses without breaking bones.
		AMR systems are used in both beef and pork processing plants, but the lab testing will apply only to beef products for now, he said.
	www.cidrap.umn.edu /cidrap/content/other/bse/news/amr.html (565 words)

	Congress Madcow (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The director of food safety for a private public health group, the Center for Science in the Public Interest, Caroline Smith DeWaal, says she is concerned because the U-S government has only a few hundred food inspectors to examine 57-thousand food manufacturers and warehouses in the United States.
		DeWaal told the Senate commerce committee that advanced meat processing machines sometimes use parts of cattle that are infected with mad cow disease, also known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (B-S-E), and could transmit the disease to humans.
		Advanced meat recovery systems produce a product that is called meat and is labeled "meat" on the package.
	www.fas.org /ahead/disease/tse/2001/dis-tse-010404-amusa.htm (485 words)

	Waste-cutter spreads suspect meat
		A USDA survey in 2002 showed that meat processed using advanced recovery systems contained spinal cord tissue at 74 percent of processing plants.
		The meat is labeled "beef" or "beef trimmings," the same as meat produced in more traditional ways.
		About 60 percent to 70 percent of cattle were processed with advanced meat recovery systems in 1999, the latest year for which statistics are available.
	www.organicconsumers.org /madcow/amr1304.cfm (931 words)

	PCC Natural Markets \| Issues & Actions : Mad Cow, BSE
		As a consumer-owned business, PCC consistently has sought out meat providers who operate with respect for the animals, the land, and all who enjoy the food they provide.
		All of PCC's meats — beef, pork, lamb, chicken and turkey — are from animals provided access to pasture and an all-vegetarian diet.
		AMR (Advanced Meat Recovery) systems, allowing spinal tissue to be labeled "100% beef," are not used.
	www.pccnaturalmarkets.com /issues/meat/meat_bse.html (635 words)

	MORE USDA LIES - Spinal Contaminated Meat Served In Schools
		Instead of simply requiring that spinal columns be removed from carcasses before being placed in advanced meat recovery systems, the USDA responded by merely directing its inspectors to continue testing samples of AMR meat for the presence of central nervous tissue.
		The first major study of AMR meat was published in 2001.
		Eighty-eight percent of the meat processors (30 out of 34) were producing AMR beef which contained unacceptable nervous tissue, and almost all of the samples (96.5%) contained bone marrow, which may also be infectious...
	www.rense.com /general46/meme.html (291 words)

	Lab Services: Chemistry
		The Central Nervous System (CNS) test was developed to meet the needs of beef and pork plants using an Advanced Meat Recovery (AMR) system to separate meat from the bone.
		AMR production will not be allowed to resume until FSIS determines that those corrective actions have been successful.
		AMR is an industrial technology that removes muscle tissue from the bone of beef carcasses under high pressure without incorporating bone material when operated properly.
	www.silliker.com /html/labservices_CNS.php (443 words)

	American Meat Institute
		AMR is a technology that removes muscle tissue from the bone of beef carcasses under high pressure without incorporating bone material.
		AMR product can be labeled as “meat.” FSIS has previously established and enforced regulations that prohibit spinal cord from being included in products labeled as “meat.” This rule expands that prohibition to include dorsal root ganglia, clusters of nerve cells connected to the spinal cord along the vertebral column, in addition to spinal cord tissue.
		To ensure that portions of the brain are not dislocated into the tissues of the carcass as a consequence of humanely stunning cattle during slaughter, FSIS is banning the practice of air-injection stunning.
	www.meatami.com /Template.cfm?Section=Home&template=PressReleaseDisplay.cfm&PressReleaseID=1827&News=Y (581 words)

	DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln \| Advanced meat recovery: Characterization, utilization and quality of ...
		Advanced meat recovery system (AMRS) are being utilized in the pork industry to mechanically remove tissue from bones.
		Pork from AMRS, referred to as pork trim-finely textured (PTFT), has properties that may be beneficial and some which may cause decreased storage stability when incorporated into other pork products.
		Bone marrow appears to have properties that may contribute to the composition of meat from advanced meat recovery.
	digitalcommons.unl.edu /dissertations/AAI9819691 (458 words)

	FR Doc 04-626
		AMR product is an intermediate product that is typically blended at about 5 to 12 percent of the formulation of ground products derived from manufacturing trimmings.
		In the 2002 Beef AMR Survey, the Agency found that while some establishments were able to consistently produce beef AMR product that was free of spinal cord and DRG, a majority of the establishments had difficulty keeping spinal cord and DRG out of their AMR products.
		The rule also required that the bones emerging from the AMR machinery be comparable to those resulting from hand deboning; that is, they must be essentially intact and in their natural physical conformation, such that they are recognizable as, for example, loin bones and rib bones, when they emerge from the machinery.
	a257.g.akamaitech.net /7/257/2422/14mar20010800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2004/04-626.htm (10124 words)

	Advanced Meat Recovery Machine Under Scrutiny
		A slaughterhouse machine that blasts the last bits of flesh off cattle carcasses already relieved of their more recognizable cuts of beef is coming under increased scrutiny as the discovery of mad cow disease in Washington raises questions about the safety of the nation's food supply.
		The machinery, known as Advanced Meat Recovery, sometimes also strips off spinal cord tissue, which can slip into the food supply unknown to the consumer.
		"The future of AMR is very much in doubt and I would be very surprised if the industry and the government didn't move very rapidly to prohibit (this machinery)," said Steve Kay, publisher of Cattle Buyers Weekly, a newsletter about the beef industry published in Petaluma, Calif.
	www.rense.com /general46/cow.html (675 words)

	CNN - USDA to inspect ground meat for bone marrow, spinal cord - Feb. 21, 1997
		They say that the meat in animals necks and other hard-to- reach places is removed from the bone by machine, which is not as precise as when it is done by hand.
		Thus, there is a greater likelihood that pieces of bone marrow and spinal cord will find their way into meat that has been processed by boning machines.
		It is estimated that such machines produce 400 million pounds of ground meat a year that is then mixed in with other ground meat.
	www.cnn.com /HEALTH/9702/21/nfm/meat.safety (497 words)

	USDA Begins Sampling Program for Advanced Meat Recovery Systems
		AMR is a technology that removes muscle tissue from beef carcasses without breaking bones.
		When produced properly, AMR product can be labeled as "meat." Previously, FSIS inspectors took regulatory samples of AMR product if they believed that an establishment was not completely removing spinal cord tissue.
		A 2002 survey of 34 establishments producing beef products from AMR systems to determine the frequency that products contained central nervous system tissue, including spinal cord tissue, showed that approximately 35 percent of the final product samples tested positive for central nervous system (spinal cord) and central nervous system-associated tissues.
	www.fsis.usda.gov /OA/news/2003/amrsampling.htm (447 words)

	Mad Cow Disease Risk in United States
		Billy said the department would issue a directive in the next few weeks to clarify that spinal cord was not meat and would set new tasks for federal meat inspectors to ensure the thick cord of nerve tissue from the spinal column has been removed before carcasses are fed into the machines.
		In addition, it found in some cases bones did not emerge from the meat machines intact, as mandated by law, but instead were crushed or pulverized.
		Advanced meat recovery systems produce 300 to 400 million pounds of ground meat products each year, which are mixed in with retail ground beef, sausages and hot dogs, according to consumer groups.
	www.vegsource.com /lyman/madcow.htm (483 words)

	Revised Directive for Advanced Meat Recovery Systems
		AMR systems remove the attached skeletal muscle and edible tissues from carcasses without breaking or crushing bones.
		The AMR process is used to produce meat from beef and pork carcasses.
		Meat derived from this method is comparable in texture and composition to meat trimmings and similar to hand-deboned products so it does not require special labeling.
	www.fsis.usda.gov /oa/background/amrdirec.htm (461 words)

	Bergen Meats ~ Bovine Spongiform Ecephalopathy
		Furthermore, since these materials are not considered as “meat” by the USDA, if they were used, they would have to be declared in the ingredient statement of the product.
		A prohibition of the use of mechanically separated meat (from beef) in human food.
		Meat from the carcass of the cow is low-risk, as BSE is not known to be carried in the muscle tissue
	www.bergenmeats.com /bse.html (1290 words)

	Mad Cow Disease (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		New restrictions on meat derived by advanced meat recovery (AMR): Spinal cord, which is currently prohibited, and dorsal root ganglia (more nerve tissue) will be prohibited in meat derived by advanced meat recovery equipment.
		With advanced meat recovery, or AMR, bones are chopped into 6-inch pieces that fit into the hydraulic compression chamber.
		The meat is finally fed through one last, finer filter to remove any remaining bone or cartilage.
	northonline.sccd.ctc.edu /judylearn/madcow2.htm (1337 words)

	National Cattlemen's Beef Association
		Advanced meat recovery losses are pegged at $10.7 to $12.5 million.
		FSIS estimates that 40 percent of cattle 30 months or older are used to produce beef advanced meat recovery products.
		In 2003, 56 establishments used advanced meat recovery for beef and pork products; about 30 of them processed beef only.
	www.beef.org /newsthepricetagforbseregsis3407.aspx (430 words)

	Stonyfield Yogurt - Moos Releases
		If concerned about the disease, the cuts of meat to avoid would be any that might come in contact with the spinal cord or brain matter, including beef cheeks, tongue and other head meat.
		Some meat in hot dogs, sausages and ground beef, especially in frozen and processed products, comes from a process called "advanced meat recovery," in which meat is extruded from carcasses under pressure supposedly without crushing the bones.
		A 2002 USDA survey of advanced meat recovery plants found that the meat from three-quarters of the tested plants contained central nervous system tissue.
	www.stonyfield.com /Wellness/MooslettersDisplay.cfm?moos_id=2 (753 words)

	NoDowners.org - DAPA: Text of bill
		Critics tried to limit the use of the so-called advanced meat recovery systems, citing studies showing that the extra meat was sometimes laced with nerve tissues, where mad cow disease can incubate.
		But the debate over the advanced recovery system shows how the industry and regulators have resisted pressure from safety advocates since the disease appeared in Britain in 1986 and then spread to 18 other European countries.
		With consumer groups pressing for a boycott of meat produced using advanced recovery technology, a host of restaurants and producers announced they were advanced meat recovery free, including General Mills and McDonald's, which swore off downer-cow meat as well.
	www.nodowners.org /media_nytimes5.htm (2079 words)

	Forbes.com: USDA details rules to protect meat from mad cow (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Meat plants using the technology must now test products to ensure they do not include the banned materials, the USDA said.
		Federal meat inspectors will also examine the plant's paperwork to determine if the product is adulterated.
		U.S. meat plants with the technology cannot use it on the bones of cattle older than 30 months, the USDA said.
	www.forbes.com /newswire/2004/01/08/rtr1203851.html (726 words)

	GreenvilleOnline.com - Raw Data: Mad Cow Disease Q&A (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Meat such as ground beef, hot dogs, taco meat, and luncheon meats are made from several sources of meat.
		They are obtained by machines, known as advanced meat recovery systems, that strip flesh from the spines and other awkwardly shaped parts of the cow.
		Often, downer animals are processed for pet food because their meat is rendered, a process that basically cooks the meat and kills disease.
	greenvilleonline.com /news/2003/12/29/2003122921699.htm (801 words)

	Mechanically separated meat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mechanically separated meat (MSM), also known as mechanically recovered meat (MRM) is a paste-like and batter-like meat product produced by forcing beef, pork or chicken bones, with attached edible meat, under high pressure through a sieve or similar device to separate the bone from the edible meat tissue.
		The act of mechanically harvesting meat that would otherwise be unusable dates back to the 1950s when mechanical hand tools were developed to help remove these scraps and minimize waste.
		Since bits of the spinal cord (the part most likely to be carrying BSE) often got mixed in with the rest of the meat, products using mechanically separated meat taken from the bodies of bovines were at higher risk for transmitting BSE to humans.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mechanically_recovered_meat (548 words)

	Cayman Net News: US meat to return to supermarkets
		Importation bone-in meats of ruminant origin — that is, meat from cattle, sheep, goats, buffalo, bison and deer, from the US, was halted in December 2003, following a reported case of ‘mad cow’s disease’ or bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in that country.
		All imported US meat must be accompanied by a US FSIS Form 9060-5, Meat and Poultry Export Certificate of Wholesomeness, which must include appropriate notations as to the age, origin and facility in which the animal was slaughtered.
		The only exception to this requirement is meat and meat products for personal consumption, up to a maximum of 5 kg, providing the original packaging is intact and the packaging bears the USDA inspection legend.
	www.caymannetnews.com /2004/08/729/meat.shtml (561 words)

	Newhouse A1
		Few people, however, use meat thermometers with burgers, and color is not an accurate measure of temperature.
		Much of the U.S. ground beef supply contains "trimmings" -- odd bits of meat and fat cut off carcasses -- as well as beef processed in "advanced meat recovery systems." Those are machines that detach soft meaty tissue from bones.
		At the same time, most beef cattle have been pushed off their natural feed -- grass -- and bulked up on grains and hormones with the help of antibiotics.
	www.newhousenews.com /archive/pulaski022004.html (1310 words)

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