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The primary role of packaging is to maintain the quality and safety of food under certain conditions for a specific period of time, as well as to provide identification and information.

Every year, stricter wastewater restrictions push processors to advance their wastewater-treatment systems.

It is hard to deny that the development of dialogue between animal agriculture and consumers has been a focal point for most food processors and retailers in recent years.

Any processing equipment in a meat or poultry plant will be measured by its output, but the amount of product it can produce is only a part of the story

Three-day event incubated innovative technologies aimed at improving the sustainable meat industry.

For more than 90 years, Freirich Foods, Salisbury, N.C., has been helping people celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with delicious corned beef. Freirich’s corned beef is synonymous with America’s favorite “green” holiday, which is the company’s busiest time of year.

The report highlights the company's sustainability and community outreach efforts to date with a particular focus on 2012.

This is the company’s sixth full report, which includes information on the company’s second set of environmental goals that span from 2012 - 2020 using 2011 as a benchmark.

In February 2013, Tyson Foods released its fourth sustainability report -- our first report to receive the Global Reporting Initiative’s (GRI) Application Level “A.”

Engineers with Perdue Farms are working on new methods of composting chicken waste in Delaware and on Maryland’s Eastern Shore that could also control pollution.