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Main Street Quality Meats, a Salt Lake City, Utah establishment, is recalling approximately 2,310 pounds of ground beef products that may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7

With this further capacity expansion, Vista becomes one of the largest modern value-added food companies in the country, supplying a variety of processed vegetables, chicken, dairy and fresh produce items.

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency says it has lifted its suspension of the operating license for the XL Foods plant in Brooks, Alberta.

BEF Foods Inc., a Columbus, Ohio, corporation, is recalling approximately 1,768,600 pounds of Bob Evans Maple Links and Maple Patties because they are misbranded in that they contain monosodium glutamate (MSG), which is not declared on the label.

Higa Meat & Pork Market, a Honolulu, HI establishment, is recalling approximately 4,100 pounds of ground beef products that may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7.

The CFIA was expected to finalize its recommendations on the plant's reopening over the weekend after further review of its bacterial controls.

Farmland Foods and Richard Petty presented $50,000 to Harvesters—The Community Food Network as a result of a summer-long campaign to raise awareness about hunger in the Kansas City area.

Global comparable sales increased 1.9%, with positive comparable sales in each geographic segment.

The agreement between JBS and XL Foods has an option for JBS to buy the Canadian and American operations of XL Foods.

While the XL Foods facility in Brooks, Alberta is still awaiting the go-ahead from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency to resume production, the Cargill plant in High River has been operating six days a week, using workers from the same union as XL Foods’ employees.