Rancho Feeding Corp.of Petaluma,CA,the beef producer that recalled 8.7 million pounds of meat on Saturday,has halted operations as personnel attempt to help locate any remaining shipments made in 2013. At the same time,the U.S.Department ...
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More than two weeks after the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced the initial recall of beef products processed by central California’s Rancho Feeding Corporation, several questions remain unanswered regarding both the ongoing ...
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Editor’s note: This article written by Christopher Peak originally appeared in the Point Reyes Light. Food Safety News does not endorse any individual food producer on cleanliness or safety. We also do not consider antibiotics or ...
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Wyoming Authentic Products, LLC, of Cody, WY, is recalling approximately 365 pounds of beef jerky products due to a processing deviation, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today. ...
Calling it a move to improve transparency with consumers, major American beef producer Cargill has begun labeling some of its ground beef products that contain the company's finely textured beef, a lean beef product derived from fatty ...
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Soybeans were higher on commercial and technical buying. Weekly export sales were lower than expected, but still more than what's needed to meet USDA projections and it was a good week for shipments. Around ten to fifteen percent of ...
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US-based Cargill has designed communications initiatives for consumers to get more information about the ground beef products and started labeling some of them that contain finely textured beef. The initiative includes an array of ...
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US-based National Beef Packing is set to shut its beef processing plant in Brawley, California, due to a drop in supply of fed cattle. The company expects the last day of production at the plant to be 4 April 2013. The closure will ...
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Due to lacking a full federal inspection, a California beef processor is recalling 41,683 pounds of beef, in whole carcasses and in parts in boxes it shipped to meat markets in northern areas of the state. Petuluma-based Rancho Feeding ...
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In this part 1 of a two-part series, a K-State veterinarian provides a look into how environmental factors, including heat stress, coupled with the use of beta-agonists potentially plays a role in cattle fatigue. In agricultural ...
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In 2014, we'll hear precious little about food safety from the federal government that will truly be new. For sure the White House has decisions to make on everything from poultry inspections to whom to nominate as the next Under Secretary ...
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Retail beef prices are at record-high levels as 2013 comes to a close, which, normally, might be a signal that demand for beef is headed (or will soon be) south. However, there's great encouragement in the latest beef demand index put ...
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The ban on U.S. pork and beef exports to Russia over ractopamine is costly for American producers, but not as much as was recently reported by the U.S. Ambassador. U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul told a Moscow business newspaper ...
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Beef cattle producers who want boost their profit potential and become more competitive in the cattle industry can learn how by attending the 2014 Ohio Beef Cattle School series Jan. 28, Feb. 18 and March 11, 2014, taught by experts from ...
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The USDA Economic Research Service (ERS) and Foreign Agriculture Service (FAS) released the latest beef trade data last week. The data for October, the latest month available, showed beef and veal exports up 5.4% over last year with the ...
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