Q&A with Bill Lovette, Pilgrim's Pride, at Chicken Media Summit
Bill Lovette, president and CEO of Pilgrim's Pride, offers his take on the 2013 Chicken Media Summit in New Bern, N.C., with Andy Hanacek, editor-in-chief. 

ProvisionerOnline.com's editors attended the Chicken Media Summit April 17-19, 2013. Below are links to the stories and podcasts from their online coverage of the inaugural event in New Bern and Kinston, N.C.

In the sports world, the ultimate short-term goal may be to win a championship; but every team owner’s dream would be to create a dynasty.

Trevor Amen, director of market intelligence, NCBA, and Patrick Fleming, director of retail marketing, National Pork Board, talk about the breakthrough changes to the URMIS beef and pork cut nomenclature that are expected to gain approval and take effect this summer.

The fifth generation of the Strassburger family has begun to build Strassburger Meats outward from its legacy steakhouse business, launching a new retail line, opening up an e-commerce storefront and expanding into the export business.

The Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Institute is now PMMI: The Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies.

The move is expected to further consolidate Little Lady Foods’ position as the leading custom manufacturer of pizza, gourmet sandwiches and other dough-based frozen products.

Real-time PCR assay awarded OMA status for detecting Salmonella in a variety of food.

The TN4200 whole muscle packaging system can handle larger and longer whole muscle products like boneless hams, loins and more.

It’s hard to fathom that the use of ammonium hydroxide, a technology that has been thoroughly evaluated by regulatory authorities and found to be acceptable for food use, is suddenly under such vicious attack.

The focus by most of us this year has been on implementation of the Food Safety and Inspection Service’s (FSIS) non-O157 STEC sampling, currently scheduled to begin for beef trim on June 4th.

Meat processors cannot ignore the fact that non-animal-based protein ingredients are gaining steam in terms of protein content and quality.

In my column last month (“USDA policies drag down processors who ‘test and find’, The National Provisioner, March 2012), I discussed how current FSIS policy (which invariably reacts critically to any positive testing results) discourages companies from aggressively testing to find pathogens in their products.