Cal Poly has opened a new meat processing center that involves students and industry in the entire production chain, from animal care and nutrition, to making, marketing and packaging innovative ready-to-eat meat products.
Maple Leaf has unveiled plans to shut a processed meats facility in Canada as part of an ongoing efficiency drive – the third disposal announced in the last four months.
The environmental impact of intensive modern livestock production is much lower than many people assume, according to a paper presented at the 71st Cornell Nutrition Conference in Syracuse, NY.
The recall of over 143,000,000 pounds of raw and frozen meat
products by a California meat processor in February is forcing the
US regulatory authorities to act and reassure the public about the
safety of the US food supply.
Suppliers of eggs and meat products to Safeway, one of the US's
biggest food retailers, will be under pressure to prove their
animal welfare credentials.
Sygen International is to receive funding from the BIRD (Binational Industrial Research and Development) foundation to carry out research into disease resistance and mortality in poultry.
A US food safety inspector has said that a series of listeria-based
food poisoning outbreaks, one of which has been blamed for eight
deaths since July, could have been found sooner if the government
had taken a stronger line.
