The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service is announcing that it will hold two public meetings to hear public comments on the proposed regulation for a mandatory inspection program of catfish and catfish products.
Rose & Shore Meat Co., a Vernon, Calif., establishment, is recalling approximately 15,900 pounds of ready-to-eat deli meat products that may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service announced.
Exports of U.S. beef and pork continued on a record-setting pace in March, with beef posting a 65 percent gain in value versus year-ago levels and pork showing an impressive 40 percent increase, according to statistics compiled by the U.S. Meat Export Federation (USMEF).
As a committed participant in the National Sodium Reduction Initiative (NSRI) – a nationwide effort to cut the salt in packaged and restaurant foods by 25 percent by 2014 – Butterball LLC is launching its lower sodium deli products at the International Deli Dairy Bakery Association’s (IDDBA) annual conference.
President Obama last week announced his plan for comprehensive immigration reform. The administration’s plan includes four parts: increased border security, accountability for businesses who hire undocumented workers, reforming the visa system to expand the legal immigration system and a plan for bringing those in the U.S. illegally into the legal system.
Butterball LLC announced the donation of more than 18,000 pounds of turkey to charitable organizations in North Carolina and Alabama that are supplying food to victims of the severe weather that affected numerous communities across the states.
Forty-nine workers have been laid off at a lamb slaughter plant in northwest Iowa. KTIV reports that workers at the Superior Farms plant in Hawarden were let go on Wednesday.
Faced with beef costs that are expected to rise 20 percent this year instead of the predicted 10 to 15 percent, Wendy's Arby's Group Inc. said it will raise prices.