LPS Industries has achieved Class 100,000 Cleanroom certification for its recently completed cleanroom as well as passing its Safe Quality Food (SQF) Edition 9 Facility certification.

Perdue Farms' food-producing facility in Washington, IN earned the GreenCircle Zero Waste to Landfill certification, making it the first U.S. turkey processing facility and third Perdue facility to earn the environmental validation.

To provide greater flexibility to contractors that supply food for federal nutrition assistance programs, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) will make certification options available for meat and poultry products purchased under these programs.

Beef cattle transporters are receiving notice from major packers reminding them to renew their Beef Quality Assurance Transportation certificate. 

Dorner’s AquaPruf Ultimate conveyor is now 3-A certified. 

Seafarm B.V. is the first aquaculture facility in the world to achieve certification against the new ASC (Aquaculture Stewardship Council) Flatfish Standard.

Meat processors have always had to work harder than other industries to keep their employees safe. After all, when you have a processing floor full of processing machinery and knives, you have more inherent danger than, say, an accounting firm.