Industry Headlines
WASHINGTON — Serenade Foods Inc., of Milford, Ind., is recalling approximately 2,250 pounds of crunchy chicken strip products that may contain foreign materials, fragments of plastic, USDA’s Food Safety & Inspection Service has announced. The products are 7.5-pound cases containing 30-ounce cartons of “Milford Valley Farms Crunchy Chicken Strips.” The cartons bear the establishment number “P-2375″...
The Associated Press IOWA CITY, Iowa — A manager at the Iowa egg farms linked to the nationwide salmonella outbreak in 2010 pleaded guilty Sept. 12 for his role in a conspiracy to bribe a federal inspector to allow the sale of unapproved eggs. Former DeCoster Farms manager Tony Wasmund acknowledged he conspired with at...
TUCKER, Ga. — The 2013 International Production & Processing Expo has surpassed 400,000 net square feet in exhibit space, covering over 20 acres of exhibit area. With only three months left to secure an exhibit at one the world’s largest poultry, feed, and meat tradeshows, space is going fast! Comprised of the three integrated...
ROSE HILL, N.C. — House of Raeford Farms’ Arcadia, La., recented reached 1 million man hours without a lost time accident. The period covered was from January-August 2012. “We place a great deal of emphasis on our monthly safety training programs for all associates,” stated Kevin Pittman, safety director for the Arcadia complex. “In addition,...
By Ann Perry - Special to Poultry Times BELTSVILLE, Md. — A gene that keeps switchgrass forever young could have far-reaching implications for the development of the plant as a biofuel crop, according to USDA scientists. Inserting a specific gene called “corngrass” from corn into switchgrass essentially keeps the perennial grass in its juvenile form...
DENVER, Colo. — The Made in the USA Foundation led a coalition of groups filing suit against the World Trade Organization, the U.S. Trade Representative and the Secretary of Agriculture to keep the U.S. Country of Origin Labeling Act (COOL) in force. The WTO ruled this summer that COOL, which required meat from Mexico, Canada...
