Subj : Re: Hamburger
To   : The Lizard Master
From : Tracker1
Date : Tue Apr 19 2005 04:30 pm

The Lizard Master wrote:
>>> As for the industrial accidents, I think someone cuts a finger off they ar
>>> going to wait until they find it, and not say, where did the finger go?  O
>>> well.
>> 
>> if a finger goes into a few hundred gallons of chili, odds are they aren't
>> going to look for it, even if so, it wouldn't be suited to put back on, and
>> probably do more harm than good in doing so... dunno though, stranger
>> things... and what if it went into the ground meat?  harder to find still, a
>> if before the grinder, that finger is gone dude, and it isn't gonna get
>> separated... hopefully that meat goes to dog/cat food or something..
>
> My point is, they would shut the whole process down at that point.  There's
> too many regulations to allow that to happen :).  Wouldn't make it out of the
> plant.

Look at the regulations sometime.. they specifically state how much "foreign" 
things can go in, without having to toss it all... a finger in a large meat 
grinding machine probably wouldn't be chased after...

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