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Processing Tech

Workplace training and auditing in meat and poultry plants

Course correction: As plant employees are increasingly given more responsibilities, processors must ensure their training is up to speed.

Megan Pellegrini

October 24, 2019

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This spring, the Trump administration announced plans to shift food safety inspections in hog plants to plant employees, cutting as much as 40 percent of federal inspectors on slaughter lines in some plants.

Stemmler employees, meat processing companies

Cover Story | Stemmler's Meats

From our family to yours

Stemmler’s Meats provides Ontario families with healthy, locally sourced food.

Sam Gazdziak

April 4, 2014

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Located about an hour west of Toronto, Heidelberg, Ontario, is a small town that is ideal for people looking to get away from the big city or visit a local farmer’s market.

Fight for Food Safety

Leaning forward in the food-safety foxhole

Shawn K. Stevens

January 16, 2014

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How is your company oriented when it comes to food safety? Is your company leaning forward in the food-safety foxhole, or hoping that if a problem happens it can hide in it instead?

Cordray's Corner

Use internal audits to help keep on track

Dr. Joe Cordray

August 8, 2013

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Most companies undergo periodic external audits

Federal employee union criticizes USDA's poultry modernization plan

May 31, 2012

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The Agriculture Department's proposal to largely outsource poultry inspections functions and drastically speed up the visual inspection process violates federal law and must not be allowed to proceed.

Cordray’s Corner: A Few Good Men

February 21, 2011

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Summer sausage processed in a spice coated casing.

Cordray's Corner: A few good men

December 1, 2010

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Pathogens, new testing technologies and the government’s rules for controlling them are changing at an unprecedented pace - one which has not seen before in the history of food processing.

The National Provisioner

July 2020

Check out the July 2020 edition of The National Provisioner: 2020 Sausage Report, Dr. Bass on the meat industry's resiliency, food safety and employee hygiene, bacteria prevention with hydrated surfaces and much more!

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Independent Processor

June 2020

Check out the June 2020 edition of Independent Processor: Tulare Meat Locker and the Cured Meats Competitions, Bilinski's Sausage takes on a new direction for an old brand, country ham, pandemic sales, AAMP and much more!

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