Minnesota Administrative Rules

1545.0200 USE OF TENDERIZING SOLUTIONS.

Meat tenderizing solutions consisting of water, salt, monosodium glutamate, papain, or other ingredients approved by the commissioner of agriculture may be applied or injected into primal cuts or consumer cuts of beef provided all treated beef cuts shall be branded, stamped, or labeled with a term specifying the specific tenderizing solution applied such as "dipped in a solution of papain" or "treated with a solution of papain and bromelin" in addition to all other required labeling during all stages of processing, storage, transportation, and sale. Treatment of the product shall not result in a gain in weight of more than three percent above the weight of the untreated product.

Statutory Authority:

MS s 31.10; 31.101; 31.11

History:

27 SR 260

Published Electronically:

August 28, 2002