All 21 Uses
taint
in
Fast Food Nation
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- Again and again, efforts to prevent the sale of tainted ground beef have been thwarted by meat industry lobbyists and their allies in Congress.†
p. 9.2 *tainted = spoiled or contaminated
- He appointed one of Moe Steinman's friends to the board of IBP (a man who a decade earlier had been imprisoned for bribing meat inspectors and for selling tainted meat to the U.S. Army) and made Steinman's son-in-law a group vice president of IBP, head of the company's processing division (even though the son-in-law, in Judge Roberts's words, "knew virtually nothing about the meat business").†
p. 155.5
- Roughly 35 million pounds of ground beef produced at the Columbus plant — enough meat to pro vide every single American with a tainted fast food hamburger — was voluntarily recalled by Hudson Foods in August of 1997.†
p. 195.1
- Food tainted by these organisms has most likely come in contact with an infected animal's stomach contents or manure, during slaughter or subsequent processing.†
p. 197.1
- According to the historian David Gerard Hogan, the hamburger was considered "a food for the poor," tainted and unsafe to eat.†
p. 197.7
- McDonald's quietly cooperated with investigators from the CDC, providing ground beef samples that were tainted with E. coli 0157:H7 — samples that for the first time linked the pathogen to serious illnesses.†
p. 199.3
- Her six-year-old son, Alex, was infected with the bug in July of 1993 after eating a tainted hamburger.†
p. 200.3
- Cutbacks in federal inspection seemed difficult to justify, when hundreds of children had been made seriously ill by tainted hamburgers.†
p. 207.4
- Because Harding had saved the box, Hudson Foods knew the exact lot number and production code of the tainted meat.†
p. 211.5
- The recall seemed surprisingly small, considering that the Hudson Foods plant in Columbus, Nebraska, could produce as much as 400,000 pounds of ground beef in a single shift — and that tainted patties had been manufactured, according to the product codes on their boxes, on at least three separate days in June.†
p. 211.8
- Once the investigators realized that tainted ground beef had reached Nevada, a number of cases of severe food poisoning that might otherwise have been wrongly diagnosed were linked to E. coli 0157:H7.†
p. 212.5
- "Press releases will not identify the specific recipients of product?' the USDA directive says, "unless the supplier chooses to release the information to the public:' A recent IBP press release, announcing the recall of more than a quarter of a million pounds of ground beef possibly tainted with E. coli 0157:H7, suggests that the industry's needs and those of consumers are not always the same.†
p. 213.9
- Despite the discovery of tainted ground beef in the restaurant freezer, the Arkansas Department of Health could not conclusively link IBP meat to the El Dorado E. coli 0157:H7 outbreak.†
p. 214.5
- SURROUNDED BY PARENTS WHOSE children had died after eating hamburgers tainted with E. coli 0157:H7, President Clinton announced in July of 1996 that the USDA would finally adopt a science-based meat inspection system.†
p. 215.1
- The Hudson Foods plant in Columbus, Nebraska, was operating under a HACCP plan in 1997 when it shipped 35 million pounds of potentially tainted meat.†
p. 215.9
- Rudy "Butch" Stanko, the owner of the company, was later tried and convicted for selling tainted meat to the federal govern ment.†
p. 218.9
- Every year in the United States food tainted with Salmonella causes about 1.4 million illnesses and 500 deaths.†
p. 219.8
- Fish endorsed one of Supreme Beef's central arguments: a ground beef processor should not be held responsible for the bacterial levels of meat that could easily have been tainted with Salmonella at a slaughterhouse.†
p. 220.6
- If all that mattered were the unfettered right to buy and sell, tainted food could not be kept off supermarket shelves, toxic waste could be dumped next door to elementary schools, and every American family could import an indentured servant ( or two), paying them with meals instead of money.†
p. 261.2
- Strict regulations cover every aspect of meat production, prohibiting the inclusion of animal wastes in feed, banning the use of hormones as growth stimulants, limiting the stress that cattle endure during transport (and thereby reducing the amount of bacteria shed in their stool), and confiscating tainted meat.†
p. 263.7
- An investigation by the USDA's Office of Inspector General subsequently found that the plant had been shipping beef tainted with E. coli 0157:H7 for nearly two years.†
p. 272.1
Definitions:
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(1)
(taint) to spoil something so it is not desirable -- as when bacteria contaminates a food; or as when a rumor makes people distrust a person
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much more rarely, taint is used in a non-negative way to refer to a trace of something.