Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20100413:22:08:00
Pause the next time they're in the meat aisle. for some chemical residues, the usda hasn't even set standards on possible levels of contamination in beef. >> reporter: traces of pesticides, heavy metals, antibiotics, could they be in the meat we're buying? a report by the usda's inspector general said standards are too lax, or in some cases, nonexi nonexiste nonexistent. for example, it says in 2008, a shipment of american beef was turned away by mexico because it contained too much copper. but that same rejected meat could have been sold in the u.s. why? because america has no limit on copper...
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