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Originally Posted by ripley
Those large tubes of ground meat are known in the [edit]
All the supermarkets I know do this ,If ypu break open a mound of ground beef and it is dark in the middle ,that is because of bacteria.Bacteria eats the blood in the middle and it turns brown.[edit].
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I agree with everything you wrote except the above. The reason for brown meat in the middle of the ground beef is that the blood had oxidized at some point before packaging with gas. But even freshly ground,lovely red/pink meat can be contaminated. You won't normally see or smell the bacteria that causes food borne illness.
And then, there's this organism called "listeria" that likes it's food cooked -- it's found in hot dogs and cold cuts.