Testing an X-ray system is typically based on selecting small bones and cutting small pieces of these bones. These pieces are subsequently placed into a chicken fillet or a deboned leg. The product is subsequently scanned by the X-ray system, and its ability to detect the bone in question is assessed.

Several years ago, leaders in the meat-processing industry joined a food safety consortium exploring the possibilities of electrostatics as applied in antimicrobial intervention.

The first duty of any food or drink manufacturer is to supply consumers with safe products. While it is essential to maintain good equipment hygiene through the use of effective protocols, such as clean-in-place (CIP) systems, it is also economically important that perfectly usable product is not discarded as part of routine cleaning operations.

Half the benefit of pre-marinated meat is consumers know what they are going to get: embedded taste and convenience. Processors are utilizing new technologies with injections and marinades, so everything tastes the same but with less sodium and sugar, and fewer food-safety concerns.

In 2018, there were 109 humane handling enforcement actions posted to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Services (FSIS) Web site.

Capturing a lead and cultivating it into a sale isn’t a quick process. The sales cycle in any business-to-business industry is a much longer endeavor because it takes time to properly market complex products such as packaging machinery to a highly informed buying audience.

For a second year in a row, beef recalls are up and on pace to eclipse last year’s figure. By November 2019, 27 recalls were ordered (compared with 31 overall in 2018, totaling 13 million pounds of beef), according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).