USDA lowers pork’s safe cooking temp

The U.S. Depart­ment of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspec­tion Ser­vice will announce Tues­day that it has low­ered its tem­per­a­ture rec­om­men­da­tion for cook­ing pork to 145 degrees. That’s a change from the agency’s long­stand­ing guide­line and means pork will be held to the same stan­dard as beef, veal and lamb.