Articles by Elizabeth Fuhrman

Sanitation and cleaning in meat processing plants are both required to ensure a clean environment.

The fundamental law that applies to apparel for meat and poultry plant workers is the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), and it addresses a couple of different issues.

Seafood sales stay strong, two years after the Covid-induced lockdown renewed consumer interest in the category.

Many of the issues that processors have with equipment on the slaughter floor have been around for a while now.

Many of the challenges that processors face with grinding and stuffing is that raw materials vary widely.

The meat industry managed a successful 2021 in spite of the issues that will remain problematic in the New Year.

With consumers shifting toward clean-label products, consumers also want fewer ingredients on the label. 

Is it necessary for non-meat protein products to taste like meat products? Stacie Waters, owner, and chief executive officer of Bilinski Sausage Co., in Cohoes, N.Y., says her company thought a lot about this question during the process of developing High Peaks Plant-Based Sausages. 

These days, a wide range of inclusions are being used by independent processors to offer customers a variety of desirable options for purchase.

Research shows consumers are looking for environmentally friendly packaging. However, they also are used to seeing a specific type of packaging for their portioned fresh meat and poultry, says Eva Almenar, a professor in the School of Packaging at Michigan State University, in East Lansing.