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During his visit to Oscar Mayer headquarters in February 2013 to field the April 2013 cover story for The National Provisioner, Andy Hanacek, editor-in-chief, sat down with Nick Meriggioli, president of Oscar Mayer.

While some days it feels like summer will never get here, it is on its way and will be here shortly.

Winston Churchill once said that Americans are a great people in that you could always count on them to do the right thing, once they had tried everything else.

Around the start of the New Year, I was writing a 2013 economic preview for our sister magazine, The National Provisioner.

Few will argue the fact that consolidations have taken their toll in the meat and poultry industries — not only in the processor arena, but mergers among suppliers have accelerated in the last 10 years.

My daughter is a Girl Scout, and one of her latest projects involved looking over the ingredients list of several snack items. When she came to an ingredient that she couldn’t recognize, she had to look it up and determine if it was healthy for you or not.

For many years the USDA: Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS) has had a website on the Internet. At one point in time the website had gotten very large and was difficult to navigate.

Cardinal Meats experienced its first recall in 2007. The details surrounding the recall were typical for a burger processor: We unknowingly purchased boneless beef from a CFIA approved supplier – this meat was contaminated with E.coli O157:H7.

Historically, the meat industry has been a place where hard work could result in upward movement within a company.