Meat & Poultry

As more Americans rely on fresh, distinctive flavors and a “foodie” experience at home, Foster Farms introduces a new fresh chicken experience with Oven Ready Entrées, allowing consumers to quickly prepare chef-inspired, flavorful chicken meals at home. Foster Farms developed the new entrées with bold flavors in mind: the five varieties of Oven Ready Entrées feature fresh chicken breasts combined with Chile Verde, Roasted Red Pepper, Buffalo, Zesty Thai or Honey Roasted Garlic sauces. Each product package contains two all-natural, American Humane Certified™, 99% fat free, fresh chicken breasts in a recyclable, oven-safe tray. …

Maple Leaf Foods is proud to announce the Company has been selected as the official provider of hot dogs, sausages and sausage buns to the Toronto Blue Jays™. …

Premium Standard Farms, LLC, a unit of Smithfield Foods, Inc. (NYSE: SFD) hog production subsidiary, Murphy-Brown, LLC, announced recently it has changed its name to Murphy-Brown of Missouri, LLC, effective immediately. …

The beef checkoff gave folks a running start at the 10th Annual Christiana Care Health System Delaware Marathon, May 11 – 12 at the Tubman-Garrett Riverfront Park in Wilmington, Delaware. The checkoff’s Northeast Beef Promotion Initiative (NEBPI) sponsored Dane Rauschenberg to run the half marathon on May 12 and exhibited at the event to share messages about the nutritional benefits of beef to runners and supporters. Nearly perfect running conditions brought out more than 3,000 runners on race day and another 5,000 spectators to help cheer them on. …

Canada’s meat processing industry supports the new safeguards for E. coli in beef that were announced earlier today by Agriculture and Agri-Food Minister Gerry Ritz as one component of the “Safe Food For Canadians Action Plan.” …