Spot the cross-contamination: Emeril on Good Morning America this morning, which is broadcast the next day in Australia at 3:30 a.m.; even used raw sprouts. The video is at http://abcnews.go.com/watch/good-morning-america/SH5587637/VD55206537/gma-528-emerils-memorial-day-burgers. But I can’t get it in Australia. Maybe Chapman will embed it.

A keen barfblog reader sent on the below video from ABC news with a new angle on the ongoing pink slime saga.

Irony can be pretty ironic sometimes. Even ironical. In Dec. 1988, then junior minister UK Health Minister told a television reporter the majority of UK eggs were contaminated with salmonella. A lawsuit by UK egg producers led to Curie’s resignation and millions worth of compensation for egg producers. For Peter Webb it was gold.

(although imperfect) Those words, in parentheses, are the most important in a paper by CDC-types about self-reported consumption of pink beef, and impair the conclusions.