Healthy burger or not: Customers left to choose
- Toluwalope Omoyeni
- Aug 29, 2015
- 1 min read
Restaurants in the UK have been advised to warn their customers of the dangers of eating pink burger meat by putting up cigarette-style notices.
The Food Standards Agency has urged restaurants to put up these notices as part of ways to prevent the risk of getting poisoned by E.coli and Salmonella, the bacteria that come from eating undercooked meat.
This new proposal allows people to make the choice to eat a healthy burger or otherwise when they eat out.
Chief scientific adviser for the FSA, Professor Guy Poppy, told the Telegraph: “We are clear that the best way of ensuring burgers are safe to eat is to cook them thoroughly but we acknowledge that some people choose to eat them rare.”
In a similar report by The Daily Mail, the FSA advised that diners can choose to eat pink burger in restaurants but have to cook their burger and meat thoroughly when eating at home.
The agency has backed this proposal by admitting that it is trying to “strike a balance between protecting public health and maintaining consumer choice.”
According to The Telegraph, two popular burger chains in London are trying out the new warning style to see how customers respond to it.
Some of Brighton’s burger outlets have also welcomed the proposal.
Anthony Turner, Manager of MEATLiquor Brighton, said: “Some of our burgers do come slightly pink but we let our customers know what their burger contains so they can make a choice.”
