Improved safety with clipless ground turkey packaging
Innovation comes in all shapes and sizes, from the creation of an entirely new process to the revamp of a traditional, accepted standard to meet new demands. As a standard practice, Garner, N.C.-based turkey processor Butterball had been using chub packaging with metal clips for its foodservice ground turkey products. Although the packaging was industry standard, metal clips presented a number of challenges, including keeping track of the clips and making sure they did not end up in finished dishes.
Looking to eliminate those challenges, Butterball turned to its long-term partner in ground turkey packaging, Sealed Air Food Care (Sealed Air), to explore alternatives to metal clip packaging. Sealed Air, having foreseen the issues with metal clips, had already successfully tested a clipless solution for beef and was able to quickly test the solution with ground turkey.