Purge from meat products has been accepted as a necessary evil for years, but retailer pressure on suppliers is building to do something about it.
Almost half of consumer complaints about supermarket chickens involve leaking blood and other fluid, and the resulting mess on checkout scanners and inside display cases mean more cleanup work for store employees. A drier poultry case could alleviate this and, argues Cryovac Corp.'s Don Smith, pave the way to higher pricing.