These products should be cooked until they are piping hot throughout, with no pink meat left and any juices running clear, it says.

BBC: Rare steak 'is safe to eat'

Its guidelines state that whole cuts of meat, such as steaks, cutlets and joints, are only ever contaminated by bacteria on the outside of the meat, which are destroyed during cooking even if the middle of the meat is pink, or rare.

BBC: Rare steak 'is safe to eat'

Add the ground round, onion and pear, and cook over high heat, stirring often, until the meat has lost its pink color, about 5 minutes.

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But beef, pork and even pink slime are federally inspected and the food safety issues are nowhere near what they are for horse meat.

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Then peek at the center of the flakes: Unlike the exterior of the meat, which becomes milky and opaque as it cooks, the interior should remain dark pink.

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Pink slime occurs when sub-par beef scraps and connective tissue are mixed with ammonia to turn formerly inedible meat into edible ground beef.

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