Just eaten pink beef burger!

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We cooked them in the frying pan for 10 mins + and checked with an internal thermometer- which showed 77 C and I believe that’s correct as it needs to be 160 F or 71 C. So temp was supposedly correct.
But as you can see from the photo it was this colour inside! I took a bite without realising - now I’m really worried! They are really thick. I feel like the juices weren’t as clear as they could be either.
I have included the packaging too.

Also excuse the cheese and condiments, I always go overboard when it comes to burgers!

You should never eat ground beef pink because of e coli. You can eat steak pink, it's because the bacteria are on the outside and so with steaks is killed during cooking. With ground beef the bacteria is mixed throughout so it all must be brown. Pretty easy to find this advice on the FSA website if you are in the uk

If it’s quality burger then pink in the middle is the correct way to cook it unless it’s really not your thing. Same with a steak.

It’s not the same kind of thing at all. See above…

And a steak cooked rare is also very different. E. coli is only present on the surface of a steak (unless it’s been compromised in some way), so searing the outside kills the bacteria.

If everyone followed FSA guidance no one would reheat rice, guidance which isn’t followed by lots of people (including me, love a leftover takeaway and always make too much rice) and certainly most Asian British! If a burger is medium rare of course there is more risk but there’s more risk of food poisoning eating a lot of foods - shellfish, badly prepared/cooked chicken etc.

And did you read where the OP said she used a meat thermometer?