Small amounts of contamination may not be visible or could occur during processing (such as grinding), spreading infectious material throughout the product. Those who are still concerned, despite the extremely low risk, can avoid processed meat products, such as hot dogs, because they are more likely to have nervous system tissue -- but even those foods have minimal risk.

Time and time again, they've said we have an SRM ban that is the ultimate public health measure they can take. There are problems at a couple of levels in that whole policy that they keep bragging about.