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Meat Processing
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Food Safety News
Letter to The Editor: Consumer best practices crucial for safe meat, poultry
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USDA says beef hearts are now OK in ground beef
By News Desk
UPDATE: Aaron Lavallee, deputy assistant administrator in the Food Safety and Inspection Service’s Office of Public Affairs and Consumer Education, today told Food Safety News there’s nothing new about beef…
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UPDATED: New labels, instructions for tenderized beef roll out today
By News Desk
UPDATE: Additional cooking instructions provided by FSIS after this story was posted. The 6.2 billion servings of mechanically tenderized beef roasts and steaks consumed annually by Americans might be a little…
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WA Salmonella Cases Now at 134 in 10 Counties, Outbreak Strain Found at WA Slaughterhouse
By News Desk
The Washington State Department of Health (DOH) issued an update Wednesday, Aug. 12, on the Salmonella outbreak linked to pork products. According to DOH, there are now 134 cases in 10…
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Government Settles on Plea Deal With Rancho Yardman
By Dan Flynn
Eugene D. Corda, 65, the top yardman responsible for receiving cattle and moving them for inspection and slaughter at Rancho Feeding Corporation’s slaughterhouse in Petaluma, CA, has very likely become…
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Major Meat Processors Survive Sandy Intact
By News Desk
Major meat processors on the east coast weathered the worst of Hurricane Sandy on Monday without many complications, trade publication Meatingplace reported Tuesday. Overall, the five processors contacted by Meatingplace…
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Ohio First State to Gain Interstate Approval for Small, Local Meat Plants
Ohio this week became the first state to gain approval to sell meat from small, state-inspected slaughterhouses across state lines -- a critical step toward rebuilding processing infrastructure for small-scale,…
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UK Imposes Moratorium on Desinewed Meat
By Dan Flynn
Desinewed meat, produced with low-pressure separation equipment to remove flesh from meaty bones, is outlawed in the United Kingdom beginning tomorrow.The UK's Food Safety Agency is imposing what it calls…
In Solvency
Thin Margins and “Pink Slime” Are Among Some of the Factors Leading to AFA Foods’ Filing for Bankruptcy in Delaware
By Fox Rothschild LLP, Fox Rothschild LLP
Introduction On April 2, 2012, AFA Foods, Inc., and certain of its affiliates (collectively, "AFA"), filed petitions for bankruptcy in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware. AFA is…
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Beyond Pink Slime
As you have probably heard by now, the food scandal "du jour" has to do with "pink slime", also known as mechanically-separated meat (or, when made by Beef Products Inc.,…