We all know by now that you cook hamburgers thoroughly to kill any E. coli bacteria that may be present from the processing of the ground beef. But you could still enjoy a rare steak or a pink prime ...

Mechanically tenderized steaks are comparable in safety to unprocessed steaks and do not need special labeling, according to the American Meat Institute (AMI), the group that represents 95 percent of ...

On Christmas Eve 2009, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced that National Steak and Poultry was recalling 248,000 pounds of mechanically ...

For many steak lovers, nothing says summer like a tender slice of beef seared to a dark gloss on the outside while remaining juicy red on the inside. But when it comes to steaks and roasts labeled ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The labels on steaks from Costco and other carriers might read "blade tenderized," which sounds harmless enough. However, this ...

Want more? Subscribe to our newsletter to get our investigations delivered straight to your inbox. Before you bite into your next steak, consider this unappetizing fact: It may have been punctured all ...

You’re familiar with the “organic” and “grass-fed” labels on your meat, but this new one might give you pause: mechanically tenderized. Since May, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) ...

You probably don't realize it, but steaks and other cuts of beef that you buy in grocery stores or restaurants may have been run through a machine that punctures them with blades or needles to ...

MIAMI (CBSMiami) – Some steaks and roasts on store shelves have been mechanically tenderized but until recently there were no rules in place to let consumers know if what they were buying had been ...