News Releases

• Experts Cast Doubt on the Meat and Cancer Hypothesis New Research Debunks Popular Claims

• Media Needs to Check Background of Pseudo Medical-Animal Rights Group and Cease Covereage of Alarmist and Unscientific Attack on Meat Products 'Physicians Committee' Campaign Exploits Children and is Fear-Mongering at Its Worst
  
  
  

• Carbon Monoxide Meat Packaging System Offers Key Food Safety Benefits, New University Analyses Show.
  

• American Meat Institute Urges FDA to Give Packaging a Thorough and Expedited Review
  
  
  
• Beef is Perfectly Safe: Positive Test Result Should Not Cause Concern. Prevention Strategies Working to Staunch BSE in U.S., says AMI
  
  
  
• Self-Proclaimed Expert Peddles Fear, Not Facts With Processed Meat Warning. Gold Standard National Toxicology Program Study Shows Nitrite Use in Cured Meats Safe (04/21/05)
  
  
  
• E. coli O157:H7 Incidence Drops 43 Percent in 2004 Downward Decline on Track to Meet 2010 Government Goals, Says AMI (02/28/05)
  
  
  
• American Meat Institute Says U.S. Beef Is Safe, No Need For Concern over News of Inconclusive Test Result for BSE or 'Mad Cow Disease' (11/18/04)
  
  
  
• Inconclusive Test Result Should not Cause Consumer Concern (06/26/04)
  
  
  
• Declines in Foodborne Infections Affirm Success of Industry Food Safety Strategies (Thirty-Six Percent Drop in E. coli O157:H7 Is Largest Ever Seen) (04/29/04)
  
  
  
• Food and Drug Administration Risk Assessment Shows Animal Cloning Is Safe (10/31/03)
  
  
  
• New USDA Microbiological Data Underscores Success of Industry Efforts to Eradicate Listeria on Ready-to-Eat Meat and Poultry Products (10/17/03)
  
  
  

Videos

• Safe and Fresh:Meat Packaging Today
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• Nitrite-Cured Meats: Are They Safe? Ask the Meat Science Guy click here
  

Fact Sheets

• Grilling and Hetercyclic Amines
  
  
  
• Carbon Monoxide in Meat Packaging: Myths and Facts
  
  
  
• Choking Prevention in Children
  
  
  
• Questions and Answers about BSE and Beef Safety
  
  
  
• Chart: United States BSE Prevention Strategies
  
  
  
• Campylobacter
  
  
  
• Case Ready Meats/Modified Atmosphere Packaging
  
  
  
• Pathogen Control in Ground Beef
  
  
  
• E. coli O157:H7
  
  
  
• Listeria
  
  
  
• Food Security in the Meat and Poultry Industry
  
  
  
• Sodium Nitrite: The Facts