Possibly as a result, in tests conducted by the National School Lunch Program between 2005 and 2009, pink slime tested positive for salmonella at a rate four times higher than the conventional ...

Before the pink slime issue exploded last spring, schools were serving up about 7 million pounds of the product per year. And it’s not likely that the product will ever get back to its previous ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced Thursday that starting in the fall, schools enrolled in the national school lunch program will have the choice not to use the byproduct. The ...

DANBURY -- Pink slime will be invited to fewer luncheons next year, local school officials say. That's because the U.S. Department of Agriculture has agreed to offer school lunch programs a choice ...

Responding to a media storm (The Daily, CBS, ABC, me), the USDA has relented on “pink slime,” the ammonia-treated hamburger filler that the agency has been ushering into school-cafeteria burgers.

It’s the return of so-called pink slime. Four more U.S. states have placed orders with the USDA for the coming school year for ground beef that may contain ammonia-treated lean finely texture… ...

"Pink slime," the beef product that made headlines earlier this year, is no longer a part of most public school lunches. The nation's school districts are choosing alternatives to the filler. Most ...

USDA will purchase 7 million pounds of ammonia hydroxide-treated Lean Beef Trimmings - better known as pink slime - this year, according to a report Latest U.S.

Bettina Siegel loves cupcakes, shops for groceries at the same Houston stores as everybody else and works at packing healthy lunches for her two kids. "I'm not a food Nazi," she says. When the ...

School children in Elyria, Ohio are mourning the demise of a 40-year tradition – the loss of their beloved pink cookie. The fabled cookie was done in by a pound of butter, six cups of powdered ...

The nation's school districts are turning up their noses at "pink slime," the beef product that caused a public uproar earlier this year. The U.S. Department of Agriculture says the vast majority ...