1 We defined undercooking as cooking to less than 155Â°F because the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Food Code says that restaurants should cook ground beef to 155Â°F for 15 seconds. 2  We also looked at whether restaurants used a thermometer to check final temperatures of hamburgers. Undercooking of ground beef. 2  We defined undercooking as cooking to less than 155Â°F because the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Food Code says that restaurants should cook ground beef to 155Â°F for 15 seconds.
smithsonian.com. David J. Skorton, president of Cornell University, a cardiologist and a jazz musician, was named the 13th Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution today. He will succeed current secretary G. Wayne Clough, who will retire at the end of this year.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 13â Robert McC. Adams, the ninth person to head the Smithsonian Institution in its 147-year history, announced today that he would retire next year and return to writing, research and teaching. You shouldn't allow leadership to congeal, said Mr. Adams, 67, an anthropologist who was provost of the University of Chicago before joining the Smithsonian in 1984.