Ground beef, beef mince or hamburger meat, is a ground meat product, made of beef finely chopped by a meat grinder. It is called mince or mince(d) meat outside North America, but can then also include pork. Ground beef is used in many recipes such as hamburgers and spaghetti bolognese.

The European Union will freeze all imports of Brazilian beef as from Thursday after Brazil failed to provide sufficient sanitary safety guarantees announced in Brussels EU Health and Consumer Affairs Commissioner Markos Kyprianou.

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Bacon, beef and milk produced from cloned animals moved closer to British menus today when Europe’s official food watchdog concluded they appear to pose no additional safety risk to consumers.

A company from Detroit has voluntarily recalled about 13,150 pounds of various cuts of ground beef and steak products that may be contaminated with E. coli bacteria, the United States Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service announced Saturday.

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