Comment on New packaging can warn you when meat has spoiled

Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Romkslrqusz@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Meat spoilage is not always obvious. A piece of meat can look fresh and firm inside a sealed package, yet still harbor microorganisms that make it unsafe to eat.

  Literally the first line of the article

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  • TehPers@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And before people ask about sniffing it, the second paragraph:

    People often recognize spoiled meat through a characteristic rotting odor caused by chemical compounds called biogenic amines or BAs. Food quality inspectors quantify these compounds using procedures that involve direct meat sampling and time-consuming laboratory analysis. However, once meat is sealed and distributed for commercial retail, such testing becomes impractical, making spoilage difficult to detect.

    You can’t sniff it through the packaging. Even when opened, your nose isn’t accurate enough to know if something has just started to spoil, or if only a little bit of it has. And not everyone has good (or any) sense of smell.

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  • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Why would I read an article that doesn’t matter? I’ve never gotten sick from a piece of spoiled meat in my life.

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    • TehPers@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Why would you comment on an article you haven’t read and have no interest in?

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      • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Because it’s dumb.

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