Where's the Beef (Been)?

 Read this found at Pesky Apostrophe this afternoon:

When workers at a Nebraska beef packing plant inadvertantly sprayed waste water on 493 carcasses, the company should not have been allowed to clean and treat the meat and allow it to enter the food supply, a non-profit consumer group said Thursday.

U.S. Department of Agriculture spokesman Steven Cohen said that the meat would normally be deemed “contaminated,” but in this situation company officials at Swift & Company convinced government inspectors they could make the beef “safe and wholesome again” through “approved treatment and microbiological testing."

And I just had meatballs for lunch. Yummy.