Chassy is professor emeritus in the department of food science and human nutrition at the University of Illinois.

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The study, which was lead by Dr. Jianghong Meng , a veterinarian and an associate professor in the University of Maryland's food science department, found that 20% of 200 meat samples contained salmonella.

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No doubt politicians will argue that I'm wrong and there were a good number of scientists involved in constructing "My Plate, " but the facts speak for themselves: If government food recommendations came from science and not politics, the Department of Agriculture would have no role unless we needed cows to lose weight.

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