date:Dec 17, 2012
ill be able to approve the treatment within weeks in the absence of formal objection by the European parliament. Lactic acid is already widely used to reduce microbial surface contamination in the USA and was deemed safe by EFSA (the European Food Safety Authority) last year.
Currently, European law permits only the use of water for beef carcass decontamination, so this is an important step for the European beef industry, said Lonneke van Dijk, category manager meat at Purac.
Lactic acid and