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Shopper Loading Grocery Bags Into Trunk
Meat Science Review

How consumers handle fresh beef products

Once it leaves the store… Consumer's mishandling of fresh beef products creates potential food-safety risk, despite education attempts.
Derek Griffing Christy Bratcher Jacqueline Kochak
June 5, 2019
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To provide educators, the industry and ultimately consumers with more knowledge about proper handling behaviors (and accountability for food-safety problems), the team sought to learn more about how consumers handle fresh beef they buy in the store.
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Cordray's Corner

Achieving Personal Work-Life Balance

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Dr. Joe Cordray
June 5, 2019
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Owners and managers of small meat plants need to be concerned with two types of work-life balance; personal work-life balance and organizational work-life balance. This article addresses personal work-life balance as it relates to the small meat plant owner or manager.
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New Regulations on Notebook Paper
Regulations & Legislation

Government issuances on foodborne pathogens

John Dillard
June 4, 2019
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Although the United States Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has been fairly quiet lately with regard to new regulatory initiatives, two recent issuances involving foodborne pathogens should be noteworthy to the meat and poultry industry.
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