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Alex Rast wrote:
>
> at Mon, 15 Mar 2004 22:44:26 GMT in
> >,
> (TheCatinTX) wrote :
>
> >I bought a corned beef (which is red and looks like "normal" corned
> >beef) from Whole Foods today. It was covered with frost, so I didn't
> >notice the package says: "uncured".
>
> Apparently, U.S. law forbids labelling something as "cured" if it does not
> contain nitrates or nitrites. IMHO this is pretty silly, and contradictory
> to common-sense experience - I'm willing to bet 9 people out of 10 would
> consider a meat cured only with salt to be "cured" and would wish to see it
> labelled as such. To me, the requirement that it be labelled "uncured" is
> misleading and leads to consumer confusion, like what you've experienced.

Aha! That would explain the whole magillah. People were
curing meats and other things with salt long before there
were nitrates.
Kate

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Kate Connally
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Until you bite their heads off.”
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