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Indiana Packers Corp.’s employees and their families will soon have access to a free health clinic in Delphi, Ind.

This notice asks inspectors to verify and document the sample source in the Public Health Information System (PHIS) when collecting raw beef samples under FSIS’s verification testing programs for Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC).

The Hillshire Brands Co. announced it has signed an agreement to sell 100% of the shares of its Australian subsidiary Kitchens of Sara Lee Pty Ltd to a subsidiary of McCain Foods Limited.

Net income for the year totaled $53.9 million, or $2.35 per share, compared with a net loss of $127.1 million, or $5.74 per share, for last year.

China and South Africa have halted imports of beef from Brazil following a case of atypical BSE that was confirmed last week.

Rabobank has published a new fourth quarter 2012 research report on the global beef industry.

Harold Ford, retired executive director of what was then Southeastern Poultry & Egg Association (now U.S. Poultry & Egg Association), died Friday, December 14, 2012.

Fiorucci Foods Inc., a South Chesterfield, Va. establishment, is recalling approximately 2,650 pounds of mortadella because the product contains pistachio nuts.

The Annual Meat Conference will be held February 24-26, 2013, at the Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center in Nashville, Tennessee.

Bruce Smith was one of the 750 people laid off by BPI when the company shut down three of its four processing plants that made lean finely textured beef.