Iowa House opts to stay out of beef over loose-meat sandwiches
The Iowa House decided today to stay out of a loose-meat controversy.
During debate on a $63.6 million budget bill to fund state administrative and regulatory agencies for fiscal 2011, lawmakers decided they had no business deciding whether to waive state regulation on a cooking technique a Marshalltown restaurant uses in the making of its loose-meat sandwiches.
Representatives voted 50-41 to remove Senate-passed language that said a Maid-Rite restaurant in Marshalltown could continue using its “traditional cooker” methods that dates back 82 years without a reported problem.
The issue came to the attention of lawmakers when state food-safety inspections raised questions about the restaurant’s cooking methods dealing with cooked and raw meats. The state Department of Inspections and Appeals notified Taylor’s Maid-Rite that it must change a cooking process in which cooked hamburger is placed in the same heated equipment used to cook raw meat.
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