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Industry defends ingredient dubbed ‘meat glue’

Industry defends ingredient dubbed ‘meat glue’, Belleville Intelligencer – Online; also Today’s Farmer, Goderich Signal Star, Lakeshore Advance, Wallaceburg Courier Press, Londoner, Sarnia This Week, Chatham This Week, Petrolia Topic, Leamington Post & Shopper, Strathroy Age Dispatch, Huron Expositor – May 17, 2012.  The U.S. meat industry has defended an additive that critics have called “meat glue,” saying the enzymes are safe, natural and not being used to deceive consumers….Dana Hansen, an associate professor of meat science at North Carolina State University who participated in Thursday’s call, said such concerns were unfounded.