Covid-19

Meat workers among those to get $600 relief payments

USDA announced Tuesday that 14 nonprofit organizations and the Cherokee Nation were selected to distribute about $655 million in pandemic relief grant payments of $600 each to farm and meatpacking workers and front-line more...

Tyson accused of ignoring NY price gouging probe: report

New York's attorney general has asked a state judge to require Tyson Foods to comply with a subpoena for information in an investigation into possible meat price gouging during the COVID-19 pandemic, Reuters reported. Tyson more...

Processing Technology

How high pressure technology contributes in sustainable meat and poultry production

With growing  consumers awareness, in particular in developed countries, that food and its production is an essential measure of healthy life, it is clear that sustainability is a key driver for the future evolution more...

AMSA Exclusive: Dry-aging as a value-adding process to improve the quality of cull cow beef loins

Cull cows account for up to 19% of all the cattle harvested in the U.S. beef industry, playing a significant role in fulfilling the beef demands in the market.[1] However, marketing of cull beef to consumers has been problematic more...

Troubleshooting

USPOULTRY Exclusive: Risk assessment: Identifying alternative approaches to regulating salmonella in poultry

In the fall of 2021, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced that it was mobilizing a stronger and more comprehensive effort to reduce Salmonella illnesses more...

USPOULTRY Exclusive: Profiling Salmonella serotypes through broiler processing

Salmonella is a leading bacterial cause of foodborne illness in the U.S., and poultry remains a vehicle for this pathogen. Salmonella is enormously diverse, with more than 2,600 distinct serotypes. One serotype can differ more...

Live Poultry

Selecting the proper emergency depopulation method

Mass depopulation is never easy. The first consideration in selecting the best method is the reason for the procedure. For example, if a communicable disease is present, especially one that can also infect humans, the method more...

Live Poultry: How to determine the gait score for broilers

As broiler size increased in the United States, so did concern for leg problems. It is believed by many that today’s large broilers gain weight faster than their bones can develop, predisposing them to leg problems more...

Show Previews/Reviews

AMSA Exclusive: What's on the schedule for the Reciprocal Meat Conference

Meat scientists from across the country will gather June 24-27, 2018 in Kansas City, Mo., where they will be hosted by Smithfield Foods and other local members from the American Meat Science Association (AMSA) at the AMSA more...

AMSA Exclusive: Pre-harvest implications of growing social interest in how meat is produced

Editor's note: This is part of an occasional series of exclusive articles provided by authors commissioned by the American Meat Science Association in cooperation with Meatingplace. The article is taken from the AMSA 68th more...

Best Practices

OT: The Bridge Between Engineering and IT

by Paul KaferThe iPad was introduced 12 years ago, in 2010. Prior to that date we either used a laptop or a desktop PC for our work. It is hard to imagine doing without tablet technology today.In a similar way, the responsibility more...

Beef discoloration costs industry more than $3.7 billion annually, study shows

By Ranjith Ramanathan, Lixia H. Lambert, Mahesh Nair, Brad Morgan, Ryan Feuz, Gretchen Mafi and Morgan PfeifferFresh beef contributes to the largest cash receipts among different types of meat in the U.S. According more...

Plant Tour

JTM's new plant built for future growth

With the opening this year of a new production facility, JTM Food Group in Harrison, Ohio, embarked on a new chapter of growth. What began as a modest family butcher shop in Cincinnati in 1960 has become a $180 million international more...

Field Report

Consistent, high-quality packaging at twice the speed

Founded in 1991, Canadian slaughterhouse and poultry processing company AgriBio is located outside of Quebec City. The company was acquired by Exceldor in 2013. Since 1945, the Exceldor cooperative has specialized exclusively more...

Sponsored Content

Resistance is Futile: After-Sales Service & Maintenance is Essential to Production

Your packaging equipment needs service, maintenance, and repairs to meet increasing production demand. Resistance is futile. As a modern producer, you may consider additional costs derived from these necessary services and more...

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