Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating mechanically tenderize steak medium rare. You might want to listen to the end... no really, the real end.

Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼

• Mechanically Tenderized Beef | Food Safety and Inspection Service
• 1. Out of Date Simpson’s Ham — Risky or Not?
• Assessment of Risk Communication about Undercooked Hamburgers by Restaurant Servers - PubMed
• Thermal Inactivation of Escherichia coli O157:H7 in Blade-Tenderized Beef Steaks Cooked on a Commercial Open-Flame Gas Grill - ScienceDirect
• ScienceDirect.com | Science, health and medical journals, full text articles and books.
• Beef Retailers Now Labeling Mechanically Tenderized Beef | Home
• 2010 Food code Issue III 010 attachment
• Consumer Response to Mechanically Tenderized Beef (MTB) and MTB Labels: An Exploratory Focus Group Study - ScienceDirect
• Outbreak of Escherichia coli O157:H7 Infections Linked to Mechanically Tenderized Beef and the Largest Beef Recall in Canada, 2012 - ScienceDirect

And here are two articles that Don found later.

• Findings of the Health Risk Assessment of Escherichia coli 0157 in Mechanically Tenderized Beef Products in Canada
• Comparative Risk Assessment for Intact (Non-Tenderized) and Non-Intact (Tenderized) Beef: Technical Report