Meat and Poultry Processing

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Meat and poultry processors are seeking ways to address common industry challenges and trends by leveraging cutting-edge advancements in automation and inspection technologies.

Freezing and chilling systems, rooms and facilities continue to advance, as do the quality, sustainability and eco-conscious goals for most processors in this arena.

While many factors including high employee attrition rates affect the eradication of contaminants, perhaps the biggest obstacle is the abundance of plants and equipment that were built years ago with fewer food safety-related features now common to newer designs.

In the fresh-poultry processing industry, it pays to assess quality and safety, especially when demand jumps.

It is important to understand the benefits that can come from a single-point automatic lubricator (SPAL), not only from a maintenance and safety standpoint, but also from a quality and reliability standpoint.

For many of today’s food and beverage processors, it’s not business as usual.

Clean-label alternative ingredients that function similarly to traditional enhancement solutions are of value to both the pork industry and consumers.

The nation’s network of frozen and refrigerated distribution centers forms a logistical supply chain that is vital to our food safety, in which every square inch of storage and every movement of product must be efficient.

Despite minimal changes to the livestock of slaughter in the past 30 years, innovation efforts are focusing on refinement of methods and equipment.