Meat and Poultry Processing

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Becoming a member of the Foodservice GS1 US Standards Initiative, Beaver Street Fisheries launched an ambitious and comprehensive data governance initiative leveraging GS1 Standards and following industry-developed best practices.

The meat, poultry and seafood industry is experiencing a global boom.

Process controls play a key role in the effective operation of meat and poultry plants. By setting performance targets for workers and having a system that identifies whether the objectives are being met, processors can quickly gauge plant efficiencies and identify areas for improvement.

U.S. animal slaughtering and processing production is rising. Average production during the 12 months through September was up 4.2 percent compared with the year-ago level

In a wide embrace of technology, vision systems are being used throughout the entire process by meat and poultry processors.

A recent study funded by the Minnesota Beef Council was conducted to 1) evaluate meat quality characteristics, and 2) identify consumer palatability and label preferences for beef raised in different production systems.

The South Korean enterprise Harim Group selected Marel Poultry to install four new poultry-processing lines spread over five floors in the fully modernized plant in the city of Iksan.

Recently, the USDA-AMS posted a notice on the Federal Register for comments on modernizing standards to allow for the use of documentation of actual age or dentition, a method used by the USDA’s Food Safety Inspection Services (FSIS), when determining beef carcass quality grades.

As a meat processor, it’s not only important to know what you are doing, but also why you are doing it and how it works. Every ingredient added to a food product is done so for a specific purpose.