Thread: Meat Glue

Agree Today Tonight and ACA in Aus are pretty ordinary Current Affairs programs... BUT..

I used to work for a meatworks which was names by Today Tonight who used the meat glue. This was a few years ago, and this meat glue was the reason I left. Top Cut (aka Tender Plus) was the company's name. They "declined to be interviewed" on TT on the subject.
The issue I had with it was the glue was used in the boning rooms I worked in/managed, and there was ZERO protective equipment at first for the lads using it. There was a warning label on the packaging written in Japanese, so one of us took it to a Japanese restaurant (one of our customers from memory) and asked them to translate. The warning stated that anyone who used it should wear gloves, eye goggles and a facemask as well as use extraction fans.

I, as well as a number of other workers, had grave concerns, as the glue works on the moisture in meat to form a sticky bond which glues the meat together. The lads who were using the stuff used stainless steel salt shakers to put the stuff on (similar to the salt shakers used in fish and chip shops). The glue, as fine as talcum powder became airborne, and we were breathing the stuff.. It became stuck in our lungs, and made it very hard to breathe at times.
A LOT of guys got sick from this glue, trouble breathing, coughing, itchy.... and when we confronted management/owners about it their solution was to use it mainly on the nightshift which was staffed by "new Australians" - mainly Vietnamese and Africans who wouldn't care..

I was out of there...