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Is the 42% pork concerned 'mechanically recovered meat'?

Wikipedia defines such a term as:

Mechanically separated meat (MSM), mechanically recovered/reclaimed meat (MRM), or mechanically deboned meat (MDM) is a paste-like meat product produced by forcing pureed or ground beef, pork, mutton, turkey or chicken, under high pressure through a sieve or similar device to separate the bone from the edible meat tissue. It is sometimes called white slime as an analog to meat-additive pink slime and to meat extracted by advanced meat recovery systems, both of which are different processes. The process entails pureeing or grinding the carcass left after the manual removal of meat from the bones and then forcing the slurry through a sieve under pressure. This puree includes bone, bone marrow, skin, nerves, blood vessels, and the scraps of meat remaining on the bones. The resulting product is a blend primarily consisting of tissues not generally considered meat along with a much smaller amount of actual meat (muscle tissue). In some countries such as the United States, these non-meat materials are processed separately for human and non-human uses and consumption.[1] The process is controversial; Forbes, for example, called it a "not-so-appetizing meat production process".[2]
usually not these days.

the EU forced suppliers to clearly label mechanically removed meat , so a lot of manufacturers moved away from it as consumers don't find it appealing apparently.

however under the definition of "meat" that has to form 42% of a pork sausage, up to 30% can be fat and 25% can be gristle and connecting tissues. so perhaps as little as 45% of that 42% is what people would actually recognise as meat.