Minced products such as hamburgers may or may not be classified as PM.
The temperature measurements during the infrared cooking of the semi-cooked cylindrical minced beef product (koefte) were taken by both contact (thermocouples) and non-contact (thermal imaging) techniques.
This shmeat could, in theory, be harvested in vast quantities and used in minced meat products: burgers, nuggety things, or potted meat-food products, etc.
The British Hospitality Association which represents many of the major providers of meals to schools said its members were testing their minced beef products in agreement with the Food Standards Agency FSAandand government, although they said they were still waiting for the "vast majority" of results to come through due to a backlog at the testing laboritories.
2.0m page views Saturday 9 February 2013 Aldi was far from the only retailer to have been caught with extract of hoof in its minced beef products, but this story, almost a month after the scandal first broke, proved of particular interest to readers.
The Co-Operative Group said 59 of its 102 own-brand minced beef products have been tested so far, with all found to be clear of horsemeat.
In response to the horsemeat scandal, the FSA requested that local authorities test minced beef products and ready meals sold at shops, wholesalers and catering suppliers for horse and pig DNA above a 1% threshold.
In the southwestern Atlantic, the roughtail stingray and other large rays are heavily fished using demersal trawls, gillnets, longlines, and hook-and-line; this fishing pressure is liable to increase due to growing commercial interest in using large stingrays for minced fish products.
A prospective Norwegian study on pregnant women with recent seroconversion found significant association with eating raw or undercooked minced meat products, unwashed raw fruits and vegetables and raw or undercooked mutton and pork.
