EU ban on ‘glue’ that binds meat

THE meat industry will be banned from using an enzyme from blood to stick pieces of meat together so they look like they form a chunk.

While EU member states voted almost unanimously to allow the use of thrombin to glue meat, members of the European Parliament decided it was a con to trick consumers.

They decided that reconstituting bits of meat and sticking it with thrombin was not safe, as the many surfaces of the meat pieces could be infected by pathogenic bacteria.