Manufacturers of ready-to-eat meat and poultry products have dramatically improved the safety of their products during the last decade.

Manda Packing Co. is expanding its recall to include approximately 468,000 pounds of roast beef, ham, turkey breast, tasso pork, ham shanks, hog head cheese, corned beef, and pastrami due to possible contamination with Listeria monocytogenes.

Manda Packing Company, a Baker, La., establishment, is recalling approximately 20,166 pounds of cooked roast beef deli meat due to possible contamination with Listeria monocytogenes.

The meat industry has a very successful track record of controlling Listeria. In the U.S., the meat industry has not issued a Listeria recall due to illness from a federally inspected product since 2002.

MVTL has implemented the Atlas System along with the Atlas Listeria Detection Assay and the Atlas Salmonella Detection Assay.

The Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA) is alerting consumers to avoid consuming smoked pork and beef pepper sticks produced by Belgrade Meat Center.

Hot Springs Packing Co. Inc. is recalling approximately 6,120 pounds of chicken polish sausage and chicken breakfast link products due to possible contamination with Listeria monocytogenes.

Perfect Pasta Inc., an Addison, Ill. establishment, is recalling approximately 315 pounds of ready-to-eat roast beef products due to possible contamination with Listeria monocytogenes.

Capital packers detected the bacteria Listeria monocytogenes on the sleeve of one of its employees and notified the Canadian Food Inspection Agency.

It provides specific recommendations that establishments producing post-lethality exposed RTE meat and poultry products may follow to meet the requirements of 9 CFR part 430, Requirements for Specific Classes of Products (The Listeria Rule).

Rochester Midland Corporation (RMC) is sponsoring an all day Food Safety Sanitation Forum on March 1 at Ayres Hotel, Chino Hills, CA. The forum will focus on food sanitation hot topics such as fungal and biofilm issues, allergen control, hygienic design issues, sustainability, GFSI Pros and Cons, and CIP/COP systems. Speakers include Margaret Kolk of National Sanitation Foundation (NSF), Gabe Miller and Mike Brandt from Sanimatic Corp., as well as Charles Giambrone, Technology and Regulatory Manager and Newton Green, Sustainability Engineer, both from RMC. Read More