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'Landmark' hog nuisance verdict may leave no mark at all

Major media outlets and a handful of industry pundits quickly attached the "landmark" label to a recent multimillion-dollar jury verdict ...

Processing deviation leads to pastrami recall

Approximately 3,592 pounds of ready-to-eat (RTE) beef pastrami products are included in the recall.

USDA launches outreach survey to small and very small meat and poultry establishments

FSIS is conducting a survey to help enhance the creation and delivery of information and resources for small and very small meat and poul...

Butterball Foodservice’s new ground turkey clipless packaging increases food safety

The new film doesn’t require any clips, so there’s no chance of them getting misplaced and inadvertently ending up in food.

Combilift sets the benchmark for mass customization with its new €50 million production plant

With 11 acres of roof space, it is one of the largest manufacturing operations under one single roof in the Republic of Ireland.

Q Laboratories cuts ribbon on new $10 million laboratory facility on Cincinnati’s west side

With this expansion the company’s total square footage grows from 25,000 to 55,000 square feet.

Polymer Packaging offers INNO-LOK technology for cost-effective, user-friendly packaging

It is a patented product and method for attaching reclosable fasteners transversely to packaging films, thereby producing a roll of pre-z...

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Processor Profiles

2018 Processor of the Year: Rastelli Foods Group

Andy Hanacek

Based on the success Rastelli Foods Group has experienced in the last year, the protein processor has been named The National Provisioner's 2018 Processor of the Year. …

Ingredients

Lunch trends: Consumers' snacking habits move into lunch

Megan Pellegrini

At the retail deli counter, lunchmeat has always been the cornerstone of what makes its way into lunchboxes, until recently. Lunchmeat is showing signs of struggle as consumers change the …

Plant Design/Management

The basics of fire insurance for small meat plants

Cole Williams

While the risk of fire is high in a small meat plant, there are efficiencies that can be gained by asking your agent to do a few things that will …

Burgers

Jensen Meats is making the consumer connection

Sam Gazdziak

As food trends come and go, it becomes paramount that a meat processor be aware of consumer desires and develop products to meet those desires. In a category like burgers, …

Independent Processor

Lower Foods stays fiercely independent

Sam Gazdziak

Lower Family Foods has remained a family tradition for four generations and more than 90 years of operation. Now, as a deli meat and cooked meat specialist, it is still …

Burgers

Big burger ideas: How burgers are standing out

Sam Gazdziak

The simple hamburger is a grand opportunity for any chef to don their mad scientist lab coat and get as creative as possible. Read a description of a burger in …

Meat and Poultry Industry News

Food Safety Summit Q&A with Mark Duffy, Universal Pure (Part 2)

In this video interview, Andy Hanacek, editor-in-chief of The National Provisioner, asks Mark Duffy, CEO of Universal Pure, for the latest news out of his company during the 2018 Food …

AMSA's Meat and Muscle Biology

Ken McMillin Ph.D

Meat and Muscle Biology was initiated by The American Meat Science Association as its official scientific journal in October of 2016 to provide a broader scope of peer-reviewed meat science and muscle biology research than was currently available to the world meat science and industry community.

Expert Commentary

Value in poultry organizations working together

Gwen Venable

Knowledge, information and expertise developed by one poultry organization is shared and available to, and utilized by, the remaining organizations to further their own mission areas.

Classifieds

Expert Commentary

Fresh bratwurst - Great for summertime cookouts

Dr. Joe Cordray

To produce fresh bratwurst that keeps customers coming back for more, you need to keep in mind several different things when you manufacture fresh bratwurst: meat used, nonmeat ingredients and manufacturing procedures.

Fight for Food Safety

Are you looking over both shoulders?

Shawn K. Stevens

The smart processors spend considerable time looking over one shoulder to ensure their suppliers follow the best dressing practices and use the latest interventions to keep dangerous pathogens at bay.

Meat and Poultry Processing

Worker safety in meat and poultry processing: A team effort

Richard Mitchell

High noise levels, dangerous equipment, slippery floors, harmful chemicals and musculoskeletal issues are causing illness and injury rates in the meat packaging industry to be 2.5 times higher than the national average, according to the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).

Beef

Can genomics advance pre-harvest intervention strategies?

Megan Pellegrini

Researchers are harnessing a still-developing field of study, microgenomics, to limit pathogens in the pre-harvest stage of cattle, while common sense methods are still being used to protect poultry.

The National Provisioner

May 2018

Check out the May 2018 issue of The National Provisioner, featuring our cover story on J&B Group, our annual Top 100 Meat & Poultry Processors report, and much more!

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Independent Processor

June 2018

The June 2018 issue of Independent Processor features our cover story on Lower Foods, along with features on new, creative burger ideas, the necessity of slaughter facilities, and much more.

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