To help ensure product safety and quality, meat and poultry processors can take steps to optimize their cold storage, logistics and transportation efforts.
Kilcoy Global Foods deploys the Nexterus transportation management system to help with managing freight and getting better reporting on its freight spend.
Like other food and beverage sectors where consumer safety is of foremost concern, being able to trace a single food item end-to-end throughout the supply chain is essential.
The impact of storage temperature on water holding has been studied for several decades, and previous research has indicated that storage temperature can impact beef color stability and water capacity ultimately impacting product yield and consumer appeal (Hertog-Meischke et al., 1998; Jeremiah and Gibson, 2001).