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Mechanically Seperated Wha?

Dec 30, 2008
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Just read the ingredients for the Slim Jim sitting on my desk. First ingredient - beef, second ingredient - mechanically seperated chicken.

Is there a need to specify that the chicken was mechanically seperated? Does this mean that the beef was not mechanically seperated but was instead manually seperated? Can I then therefore deduce that the FDA has determined that the manual seperation of meat does not need to be specified, however, the mechanical seperation of meat does? Or does the mechanical seperation nomenclature apply only to chicken, and therefore even though the beef was also mechanically seperated, it does not fall under the FDA guidelines for the mechanical seperation of meat disclosure, and can therefore be listed simply as beef?

Just curious.