After a multi-month evaluation, the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has ruled that LFTB meets the regulatory definition of ground beef under the law in 9 CFR 319.15(a) and thus may be labeled as ground beef.
A South Dakota judge refused to throw out a $1.2 billion defamation lawsuit over the network’s coverage of BPI’s lean finely textured beef, which was also dubbed “pink slime.”
Bruce Smith was one of the 750 people laid off by BPI when the company shut down three of its four processing plants that made lean finely textured beef.
