Recently we received that dreaded call that a child had become ill with E.coli O157:H7 poisoning, and although they couldn’t say for sure, they believed over the past couple of weeks the child may have eaten one of our burgers.
The company will require all of its protein, ingredient and packaging suppliers to become food safety certified to a Global Food Safety Initiative standard in 2017.
The never-ending quest for greater operating efficiencies by meat and poultry plant operators is making the sector ripe for clean-in-place (CIP) systems.
Meat and poultry plants have a variety of measures to safeguard workers, but getting employees to embrace the guidelines is essential for widespread success.
A recurring question I receive from clients, former colleagues, the public, family and associates is, “HIMP, what’s the big deal with it?” Then it seems everyone has an opinion, most based on what they have “heard” in the media.
To take its food-safety program to the next level, Marcho Farms replaced its traditional trim-testing program with an innovative, comprehensive carcass-testing program — a proactive tactic in the war against E. coli.
In the meat industry, one might consider Wayne Marcho, founder of Marcho Farms, to be a trailblazer, as he has had a long history of investment into doing “what’s right” by the company and its consumers — the most recent evidence occurring when its continuous-improvement efforts were turned toward its already-strong food-safety record.