Blue Junk in Grocery Store Ground Beef Fat

[treillw]

I picked up some beef fat from the local grocery store butcher shop to mix in with my elk meat to grind up for burger. Part way through the grind I noticed a fair amount of the fat had this blue color to it. What in the world is it? Dye from something? Grinder grease? Styrofoam? Hope I just didn't ruin 70 pounds of elk meat.

 

[Tod osier]

USDA grade stamp would be my first thought.

 

[jmez]

What Tod said. Just ink from USDA Stamp.

 

[wytx]

Call and ask them what it may be, I would think the stamp also but looks like quite a bit.

 

[Phaseolus]

Tod nailed it.

 

[Blackdirt Cowboy]

Yep. That’s the grade stamp ink. It’s edible. All carcasses are stamped with it when they are graded.

 

[treillw]

Called them. It's the stamp. Thank you all.

 

[Grumman]

Hey thanks for posting I learned something. I would have been uneasy about that myself.


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