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Consumers Concerned About Carbon Monoxide in Meat |
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October 2, 2006
In addition, 78 percent of consumers said that the practice of treating red meat with carbon monoxide is deceptive and 68 percent would strongly support a law to make it mandatory that meat treated with carbon monoxide be labeled, according to the survey of 1,019 men and women administered for CFA by the Opinion Research Corporation. "Consumers are quite simply concerned about the addition of carbon monoxide to meat packaging," said Chris Waldrop, Deputy Director of the Food Policy Institute at Consumer Federation of America. "In fact, most consumers find the practice deceptive. The FDA needs to halt this practice immediately." Adding carbon monoxide to meat packaging increases the meat packers' profit by reducing the number of times meat is repackaged. Adding a small amount of CO to prepackaged red meat makes the meat appear bright red for up to several weeks longer than untreated meat. CFA has written to the Food and Drug Administration in support of a citizen's petition filed by Kalsec, Inc. in November 2005, asking FDA to prohibit this use of carbon monoxide in the packaging of fresh meat. "It is clear that the FDA failed to consider the consumer deception inherent in this practice," Waldrop added. "The agency simply ceded to industry pressure without adequately considering the impact on consumers." Most consumers are concerned about the practice of adding CO to color meat and believe this practice to be deceptive, according to the survey.
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