Regulatory Watch US opens beef imports, exports to Brazil USDA reaches agreement with Brazil to repoen each country's respective markets. September 29, 2016 USDA also recently determined that Brazil's meat standards meet US standards.Read More
Fire damages Illinois Smithfield meatpacking plant Jeremy Gerrard September 8, 2016 A fire at a Smithfield Foods meat plant in Monmouth, IL Monday evening temporarily halted operations for the plant’s 1,600 workers.Read More
Hormel to modify ingredients in some meat products Jeremy Gerrard April 14, 2016 The company says it is tweaking the recipes of some canned and packaged meat products through the removal or replacement of some ingredients.Read More
Is that blood in my meat package? Latest MythCrusher video says no April 13, 2016 It’s a perception that many people have when they see liquid in a meat package: it must be blood.Read More
Cargill acquires South Carolina beef processing plant March 4, 2016 Cargill has purchased the FPL Food, LLC ground beef processing plant in Columbia, SC. Read More
New NAMI document addresses nitrite safety Jeremy Gerrard February 9, 2016 Sodium nitrite, commonly used in a variety of cured meats from bacon to deli meats to hot dogs, is quite misunderstood.Read More
Oberto shuttering Tennessee plant, will consolidate manufacturing to Washington Jeremy Gerrard January 14, 2016 The company will stop operations at its Nashville, TN plant and sell its Albany, OR facility in order to consolidate production and increase growth.Read More
UK processed meat sales slide after WHO cancer report Jeremy Gerrard December 2, 2015 Sales of sausage and bacon in the United Kingdom fell in the weeks after the World Health Organization report made headlines.Read More
NAMI publishes updates to meat, poultry nutrition website Jeremy Gerrard December 2, 2015 The website offers a library of published, peer reviewed studies about the role that meat and poultry play in a healthy diet.Read More
WHO issues clarification on report linking processed meat to cancer Jeremy Gerrard November 2, 2015 The World Health Organization has clarified the results of last week’s report which said the consumption of processed meats such as hot dogs, bacon and deli meats increases the risk of cancer—and eating red meat probably causes cancer as well.Read More
