New shelf-life extenders mesh perfectly with consumers' continuing desire for convenience, food safety and prevention of food waste. The key? Their packaging technology.

Pulled pork dishes continue to grow in popularity at restaurants — but the cooking process can be very time- and labor-intensive.

Farmland Foods announced the introduction of Oven Perfect™ Fresh Pork, a new line of fresh pork products that is marinated, dry-rub seasoned and ready to cook right in the bag.

Superior Farms continues its innovative development of value-added lamb products with a fall lineup of retail comfort food items.

Superior Farms continues its innovative development of value-added lamb products with a fall line-up of retail comfort food items.

Facing increased input costs, poultry and other deli processors are seeking sophisticated technologies that increase efficiency and add value for better product margins.

Superior Farms creates new opportunities for itself rather than waiting for them to come. As one of the country’s largest lamb processors, any action Superior Farms takes has a ripple effect throughout the industry.

Since environmental exposure is a major source of Listeria monocytogenes contamination on fully cooked ready-to-eat products, cook-in-the-bag processing has become very important. By not exposing the product to the environment between cooking and packaging, the chance of Lm contamination is eliminated, which reduces the need for some of the antimicrobial agents and the post-packaging pasteurization process to eliminate Lm on ready-to-eat meat products.

Cook-in-bag technology is quickly gaining popularity for its contamination elimination.