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AAMP Exclusive: Best practices from the American Meat Curing Championships

Editor’s note: The following video is part of a partnership with the American Association of Meat Processors. Its American Cured Meat Championships (ACMC) is the only national event of its kind in North America. Hundreds more...

Covid-19

Truckers' hours of service exemption extended

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has extended the modified Emergency Declaration originally issued in March of 2020, continuing the waiver for some commercial truckers — including those hauling livestock more...

Geography, novelty and alt-meat dominate restaurant trends

Where an eatery is located, what they can offer consumers that’s new, and alt-meat promise to be the biggest restaurant and hospitality trends in 2022, according to a panel discussion webinar hosted by The Food Institute more...

Processing Technology

CO2 stunning optimized: Maximizing quality in pig harvesting

There is little doubt that group handling of pigs prior to slaughter provides the most natural method for the animal and that the resulting meat is higher quality than with other methods of stun. For these reasons, carbon more...

MeatingPod Show Notes: EP 41: Poultry, processing and productivity, oh my!

Julie Larson Bricher (JLB): Hi! I’m Julie Larson Bricher, science and technology editor for Meatingplace magazine. Welcome to Ep. 41 of MeatingPod, where we're talking poultry quality, safety and processing productivity more...

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AMSA Exclusive: Pulsed ultraviolet light decontaminates raw poultry parts

Raw chicken provides all of the necessary conditions needed to harbor and support the growth of spoilage and pathogenic microorganisms during processing, refrigerated transportation, and storage. Between 2009 and 2015, the more...

Wrangling Issues of cybersecurity in connected plants

Industry 4.0 delivers technology that allows for processes to be connected to each other inside the plant and provides remote access to perform many functions. Employees can access the system to view or change process conditions more...

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Best Practices

MeatingPod Show Notes: EP 37: Tales from a totally chill poultry plant expansion

Julie Larson Bricher (JLB): Hi. I'm Julie Larson Bricher, science and technology editor for Meatingplace magazine. Welcome to Ep. 37 of MeatingPod, where we're talking poultry operations and processing technologies with more...

USPOULTRY Exclusive: Road to discovering an effective S. Reading vaccine to improve food safety and protect the U.S. turkey industry

Salmonella is a major human foodborne pathogen and is responsible for significant morbidity and mortality worldwide. Salmonellosis is frequently caused by the consumption of contaminated meat or food animal products, and more...

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