Through the years various factors have been implicated in the pinking of cooked poultry and pork. The problem usually appears randomly and mysteriously disappears. Two of the most prominent precursors for the defect appear to be the presence of extraneous residual nitrates/nitrites and high cytochrome c levels.
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Joseph A. Maga (1994) studied this question.
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