The Canadian Food Inspection Agency on Tuesday widened an existing warning on frozen burgers and steakettes to now include more than 135 different products, due to the possibility they are contaminated with E. coli.
Beef Products Inc. founder Eldon Roth has issued a statement in the wake of the recent controversy over the company's boneless lean beef trimmings product, dubbed by some as “pink slime.”
The European Parliament approved a deal between the EU and both the United States and Canada on hormone-treated beef on Wednesday, ending one of the trading powers' oldest disputes.
An ABC News feature questioning the use of boneless lean beef trimmings – or “pink slime,” as the report dubbed it – has led the meat industry to defend its use in ground beef.
SuKarne, the leading company in the Mexican market for meat, began construction of its latest facilities in Tlahualilo, Durango, launching the first phase of "Ganadera Integral La Laguna" and created a new model of alliance with regional producers.
Exports of U.S. pork, beef and lamb set new records across the board in 2011, reaching all-time highs in both volume and value and exceeding $11.5 billion in total value.
Cow/calf and seedstock producer Wesley Grau from Grady, N.M., was re-elected by fellow CBB members to serve as chairman of the Cattlemen’s Beef Board in 2012, after fulfilling a partial term at the helm in 2011.