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09-19-2012, 01:00 PM
The executive director of the Dominican Pork Farmers Association (Adogranja), Pedro Porrello, revealed yesterday, Tuesday 18 September that since 1998 pork and beef have been absent from most salami produced in the Dominican Republic. According to an article in El Caribe, the meat processors are using MDM - mechanically deboned meat - an industry euphemism for processed scraps that have been reduces to what has been called "pink ooze" in the United States press. It is not meat according to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and is classified as a meat byproduct.
According to Porrello, the central issue between the meat processors, the companies that produce salami with MDM, and the nation's pork farmers is based on the fact that for more than 10 years the meat processors have stopped buying pigs from the farmers while selling the idea that their salami contains pork and beef. Adogranja said that "for more than a decade, the Digenor and Ministry of Public Health authorities have allowed the meat processors to violate the laws and the technical regulations..."
Porrello suggested the creation of two product lines: one using MDM and another using real meat from the pork and beef farmers. He warned that the recent proposal of a regulation at Digenor would include the definition of MDM, which should not be allowed. He said that "the meat processors intended to include MDM in the process of making hams, especially ham which is used in sandwiches." By definition, ham is the generic name of the meat from the hind legs of pigs.
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According to Porrello, the central issue between the meat processors, the companies that produce salami with MDM, and the nation's pork farmers is based on the fact that for more than 10 years the meat processors have stopped buying pigs from the farmers while selling the idea that their salami contains pork and beef. Adogranja said that "for more than a decade, the Digenor and Ministry of Public Health authorities have allowed the meat processors to violate the laws and the technical regulations..."
Porrello suggested the creation of two product lines: one using MDM and another using real meat from the pork and beef farmers. He warned that the recent proposal of a regulation at Digenor would include the definition of MDM, which should not be allowed. He said that "the meat processors intended to include MDM in the process of making hams, especially ham which is used in sandwiches." By definition, ham is the generic name of the meat from the hind legs of pigs.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#8)