UK-based multi-material packaging manufacturer Linpac Packaging has partnered with Addmaster to develop a range of trays and films with built-in antimicrobial technology to lessen bacterial growth on the outer packaging of fresh meat. ...
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Sri Lanka's Keells Food Products is planning to buy meat processing firm D&W Foods for LKR700m ($5.24m) and upgrade manufacturing facilities. The acquisition includes D&W Foods' production facility at Makundara Industrial Estate West, ...
US-based pork processor Smithfield Foods is set to initiate its previously announced closure of its meat facility in Portsmouth, Virginia, which produces deli meat and hot dogs. The company noted that the layoffs will first begin in ...
Antimicrobial packaging can inhibit listeria in ready-to-eat meat products and also control spoilage, according to a new study conducted by researchers at University of Georgia, US. For the study, researchers inoculated cooked ham ...
The XL Foods facility in Alberta, Canada, which was at the center of a massive nationwide beef recall, has been ordered by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) to take immediate action to address some of the safety issues that were ...
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Joyce Foods is set to launch Heritage Black Turkey in the US market. The Heritage Black Turkeys are raised with no antibiotics and with no added hormones or steroids, the company said. In addition, the turkeys are raised using humane ...
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A new poultry production complex is set to be established in Chad,a development which is expected to boost industrial meat production and improve food security in the country. The project is supported by US food and nutrition company ...
Tags: meat, food security, poultry
Cargill Beef,a business unit of Wichita-based Cargill Meat Solutions,is recalling 29,339 pounds of fresh ground beef products that may be contaminated with Salmonella Enteritidis,according to the US Department of Agriculture's Food Safety ...
Tags: FSIS, beef, Salmonella, Enteritidis
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency(CFIA)is set to be audited by the US Department of Agriculture(USDA),for the first time since 2009. As a part of the audit,which will be conducted later this month,a team of US officials will evaluate ...
House Foods America has completed the acquisition of El Burrito Mexican Food Products, a Mexican food brand based in City of Industry, California, US, for an undisclosed amount. The acquisition includes all the assets of the company. El ...
Tags: healthy Mexican food products, leading soy meat analogue brand
US-based 3M Food Safety has announced that it has received AOAC-PTM Certification for the 3M Molecular Detection Assay Listeria for Environmental Testing from the AOAC Research Institute's Performance Tested Methods Program. The 3M ...
Gyrotron Technology, a Pennsylvania-based industrial technologies developer, has filed a provisional patent application for its technology for the decontamination of beef carcasses and other food products. The company claimed that the new ...
Specialty food firm The Chefs'Warehouse has acquired Michael's Finer Meats,a supplier of meat and seafood for$54.3m,as a part of its strategy to expand into Midwestern US. Michael's Finer Meats,based in Ohio,US,supplies a range of custom ...
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US meat company Central Valley Meat (CVM) has reopened its California meat facility after the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) accepted its action plan involving humane treatment of livestock. Recently, USDA shut the plant after it was ...
Tags: meat facility, humane treatment of livestock, animal rights group
UK-based food manufacturer Cranswick has launched a meat snack, Bertie's Bangers, a new range of fully cooked, ready to eat, single serve, British sausage. The new product has been launched in response to the consumer demand for tasty ...
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