Subpoenas have received five authors - including Times reporter and famous culinary browser Michel Simon, who were asked to provide copies of all correspondence with the ABC in 2012.

Beef Products Inc.(BPI) has filed a lawsuit against ABC in 2012, requiring you to repay $1.2 billion in losses due to report on meat product, which the industry calls "defatted textured beef", which critics have called "pink slime. BPI said that the report ABC misled consumers (who came to the conclusion that the product is unsafe) and led to the closure of three industrial enterprises and mass firing 700 employees.

Lawyers ABC argue that in each of broadcasts about the product channel specified that the Ministry of agriculture of the United States says the product is safe for human consumption. According to the lawyers, BPI might not like the phrase "pink slime, but this product has a pink color, like any ground beef and mucous structure. The lawyers of the media believe that the accusations against reporters illegal, and that they will be challenged.

In its ochered, lawyers BPI find compromising materials against any journalist or blogger who ever mentioned "pink slime.

The product is made according to the technological process, which includes heating of scrap remaining after cutting the cow carcasses, Department of fat from the meat part in the centrifuge and processing of meat ammonia vapour to prevent the development of pathogenic organisms.

Social protest against product in 2012, aided by the media, prompted the Ministry of agriculture of the United States to offer an alternative choice for the procurement of ground beef school districts that receive food in the framework of the government program.

Product manufacturers reported that meat sales increased since the peak of the protests that took place two years ago.

Besides the management of the channel ABC, the judicial process has also affected the leading news and correspondents channel, microbiologist, Ministry of agriculture, which was named product "pink slime, and a number of other officials.