USDA threatens to shut down facilities; Consumer Reports findings; Foster Farms statement

Entitled “Chicken and Packaging: A Sustainable Partnership,” it is available for download at the AMERIPEN website.

Sen. Charles Schumer said tougher enforcement of health standards are needed to protect consumers.

The new regulation would prohibit farmers from applying manure at all if the phosphorus content of their soil is too high.

The risk of illness from consuming this product is negligible, reports FSIS.

Vikon Farms will be spending $5.4 million to reopen the plant, which will be used to process free-range, natural chickens for the overseas market.

Traditions, a Pearl, Miss., establishment, is recalling 2,486 pounds of frozen chicken meals because of misbranding and an undeclared allergen.

A chicken nugget and boneless ham may look completely different, but they share at least one thing in common: They are both formed products, albeit of much different sizes.

Tip Top Poultry Inc. is recalling approximately 18,000 pounds of mechanically separated chicken product that may contain pieces of plastic.

It’s is an added value for those customers who are whole leg deboning manual, as well as automatic with the Meyn WLD M2.0.