meat processing

Bidders may be lining up for Sara Lee as private equity firm Apollo assembles an investor group to explore a possible offer and Brazilian meat-processor JBS considers coming back with a better deal.

The New York Times reports that one of the main suppliers of processed beef filler to fast food restaurants like McDonald's and Burger King -- not to mention school lunch and grocery store meat -- had been using ammonia as a means of killing E. coli O157:H7 and salmonella. Yes. Ammonia. Years...