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Cardinal Meats experienced its first recall in 2007. The details surrounding the recall were typical for a burger processor: We unknowingly purchased boneless beef from a CFIA approved supplier – this meat was contaminated with E.coli O157:H7.

BNP Media’s Food Safety Summit, April 30-May 2, at the Baltimore Convention Center in Baltimore, includes an interactive feature in its lineup.

The company has completed the installation of a Hiperbaric High Pressure Pasteurization System (HPP) in their Mount Pleasant, Iowa facility.

In recent years, the science of food safety has evolved from the continuous supply of safe food to encompass terminology such as food defense and food fraud.

Did tougher food-safety regulations lead to advances in antimicrobial applications over the last year?

The National Provisioner sits down with Dr. Elisabeth Hagen, USDA Under Secretary for Food Safety, to assess the state of food safety in the meat- and poultry-processing industries.

JBS USA, held a press conference this afternoon to discuss details of its agreement with Canadian beef processor XL Foods, regarding the XL Lakeside facility in Brooks, Alberta, Canada.

This summer, let alone the past year, has been a busy one for new programs and guidelines from the USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS).

Hygiene mandates in food production and packaging facilities continue to be a critical focus of processors and regulators, yet some companies still cling to cumbersome and less-than-effective methods of washing and sanitizing containers used in the process stream.

Between the field, the transportation, the slaughterhouse, the processing and the further processing, there are dozens of places where a foreign object can become embedded in the meat tissue.