Food crediting is the system that defines how each food item fits into a meal for the National School Lunch Program, other federal child nutrition programs.

Owners of Oregon meat shop were accused of knowingly allowed more than $100,000 of meat to rot.

Zito has served at the Meat Institute for 11 years.

Sessions on robotics and packaging will cover trends and technology that will be impacting the meat industry.

Menu trends that will be heating up in 2018 include doughnuts with non-traditional filling, ethnic-inspired kids’ dishes, farm/estate-branded items, and heritage-breed meats.

Plans would include state-of-the art chicken house and processing facility.

Approximately 143 pounds of pork salami products are included in the recall.