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Cargill made major progress toward its 2015 Environment, Health and Safety (EHS) goals – five-year, companywide goals centered worker safety and environmental sustainability.

The FDA, CDC, FSIS, ARS and CNPP will hold a joint meeting on approaches to reduce sodium consumption.

Hormel Foods Corp. announced the retirement of Michael D. Tolbert, group vice president of Specialty Foods, effective Dec. 31, 2011.

Sara Lee Deli has launched its new “Life’s Not Perfect…But Your Deli Meat Can Be,” social media campaign.

Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood has asked a federal court to turn over grand jury records from the U.S. government's investigation into the now-defunct beef plant as he prepares for a civil lawsuit.

The American Meat Science Association announced winners from the Eastern National Intercollegiate Meat Judging Contest, held October 1, 2011, at Cargill Regional Beef, Wyalusing, Pa.

Charles S. "Chas" Armitage, Jr., 52, president of Uncle Charley's Sausage Company, died in a private plane that crashed in a remote area near Peru, W.V. on Sunday night.

In response to a lawsuit by Muslim inmates over non-Halal meats, Ohio officials have decided to remove all pork products from prison menus.

U.S. beef packing companies are suffering the largest losses in 2-1/2 years as tight supplies of cattle have them paying near record high prices for them.

Butterball LLC has announced that Neal Walsh, corporate purchasing director at Butterball, has been elected to serve as the membership and sponsorship committee chairperson on the North Carolina Poultry Federation (NCPF) 2011-2012 Board.