A Garden City, Kansas meat processing plant owned by Beef Products Inc. (BPI) will begin to collect beef trimmings next week and resume operations after controversy surrounding the company’s lean, finely textured beef product forced the facility to close in 2012.
The first results of a new survey testing for the presence of Campylobacter on fresh, store-bought chickens revealed 59 percent of birds tested positive for the bacteria.
In an effort to improve worker safety and prevent thousands of illnesses each year, USDA announced additional food safety requirements and the new National Poultry Inspection System (NPIS).
With a dwindling supply of cattle, international food supplier Cargill said it will close its Milwaukee, Wisconsin beef harvest facility effective Friday.
To the frustration of some in the meat industry, the US Court of Appeals for the District of Colombia Circuit issued a decision Tuesday on the country-of-origin labeling law, or COOL law, saying it did not violate free speech.
Tyson Foods, Inc. will shut down operations and close three plants in Cherokee, Iowa; Buffalo, New York; and Santa Teresa, New Mexico, as part of an ongoing effort to improve performance in the prepared food business, the company said last week.
With poultry consumption on the rise, CMS Technology and the University of Georgia (UGA) have launched an alliance to focus on secondary processing and food safety in the poultry industry.
It has been suggested beef production is bad for the environment, but researchers out of the Weizmann Institute of Science have put an actual cost on the industry and say beef takes the highest toll when compared with other animal-derived foods.
Executives at the Illinois-based meat processing holding company OSI Group have taken responsibility and apologized for the unraveling food safety scandal at Husi Food Co., Ltd., one of its affiliates in Shanghai.