If food safety is a farm-to-fork focus, it is also a head-to-toe priority within a processing plant. Whatever apparel an employee may don (or doff, for that matter) can make

“Form Follows Function.” That basic principle of architecture and design applies to the further processing of meat and poultry as well, with modern forming systems that are built for versatility

In the years since the September 2001 terrorist attacks — a time also marked by independent concerns about bovine spongiform encephalopathy, hoof-and-mouth disease, foodborne-illness outbreaks linked to pathogens like E.

Retailers engage in food-safety efforts from the backroom to the service counter and beyond.The analogy of a battle is frequently used to describe farm-to-plate food-safety efforts. Those at the retail

“A highbrow is the kind of person who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.”— Sir Alan Patrick Herbert, (1890-1971); English journalist and writer   While there may not

The scope of the meat and poultry industry is one thing, but the scale is an entirely other matter.How fresh, frozen and packaged proteins are weighed, even to the smallest

When bar-codes were first developed in the 1950s and 1960s, the technology was driven by retailers looking to speed the checkout process at time when the booming food manufacturing and