ConAgra Foods Inc. announced its pledge to reduce salt across its portfolio of food products by 20 percent by 2015. Since 2006, the company has already removed more than 2

JBS SA said on Wednesday that the U.S. Department of Justice has approved the company's takeover of Pilgrim's pride. The company had announced in September that it intended to buy

National Beef Inc. announced that it has filed a registration statement on Form S-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission relating to a proposed initial public offering of shares

Several meat industry authorities were featured on last night's Larry King Live show on CNN as part of a panel discussion on meat safety and nutrition. According to CNN’s Web site,

Japan has suspended beef shipments from a Tyson Fresh Meats Inc. plant in Lexington, Neb., because of a beef shipment that contained banned cattle parts. Japanese inspectors found bovine spinal

A spokesman for the European Union says that it regrets the United States' decision to appeal to the World Trade Organization to settle the ban over U.S. chicken imports to

Costco announced that it has reached an agreement with Tyson Foods for testing all incoming beef trimmings for E. coli. Craig Wilson, Costco’s food safety director, announced that the company

Iowa Premium Pork's Hospers, Iowa, plant was damaged after an apparent electrical problem sparked a fire in one of the plants coolers on Sunday, damaging the plant. However, a spokesman

USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack has issued a statement on the New York Times article about E. coli contamination in ground beef. The article covered the illness of one person who

The New York Times ran a expose over the weekend about an E. coli-tainted hamburger that left dance instructor Stephanie Smith paralyzed from the waist down. The ground beef was