Edwin Pawlowski wrote:
> This was in Packaging Digest today
>
> Safeway Inc. to stop packaging meat with carbon monoxide gas
> Responding to concerns from members of Congress, Safeway Inc. is halting the
> sale of meat packaged in carbon monoxide gas, which makes the products
> appear fresher. Reps. John D. Dingell and Bart Stupak, both Michigan
> Democrats, wrote last month to three large meatpacking companies and to
> Safeway, the country's biggest grocery chain, asking them to stop the
> practice. Safeway was the first to respond.
>
>
Pure pseudo alarm. How much CO can there be in the meat. A tiny amount
diffuses into the very eternal layer of the muscle fibers and
aponeurosis (to give it a more appealing look.) You probably breath in
more CO from car exhaust, than what you get in the meat (providing most
of it has not diffused out already.)

Congress as always is doing what they do best--attending to special
interest groups with the end result being more votes from their
constituents.

Law of the jungle still applies; the hell with the plebeians!

R