The Nation - News from April 16, 1987
An outbreak of illness caused by too much thyroid hormone has been traced to hamburger that contained pieces of thyroid gland that was inadvertently mixed with the meat, a study concluded. Doctors from the Minnesota Department of Health, reporting in the New England Journal of Medicine, linked the outbreak to a single slaughterhouse that used neck meat in its hamburger.
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