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.
Recoined in U.S. currency, the gift amounted to more than $500,000. After eight years of sometimes heated debate, an Act of Congress signed by President James K. Polk on Aug. 10, 1846, established the Smithsonian Institution as a trust to be administered by a Board of Regents and a Secretary of the Smithsonian.