Meat & Poultry

GNP Company™, the Midwest's leading chicken producer of the Gold'n Plump® and Just BARE® chicken brands, earned the poultry industry's highest environmental honor—the 2013 Clean Water Award from the U.S. Poultry & Egg Association. Winning in the full-treatment category, the award recognizes GNP Company's outstanding water treatment facilities and was announced at the association's Environmental Management Conference on March 12, 2013. …

Quantum Foods, LLC, a leading independent custom provider of value-added proteins, announced that it has appointed Peter Brooks Brown as President, effective today. Brown is a veteran of the food and meat industry, and he brings more than 25 years of experience to Quantum Foods. …

FPL Food, LLC, a West Columbia, S.C. establishment, is recalling approximately 5,820 pounds of ground beef chuck that may contain small pieces of plastic, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced. …

Ben-Lee Processing, Inc., an Atwood, Kansas establishment, is recalling an undetermined amount of ready-to-eat and heat-treated bacon and ham products that were produced without a Hazard Analysis & Critical Control Points (HACCP) plan, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced. …

Organic Prairie™, the brand of delicious organic meats produced by the same farmer-owned co-op as Organic Valley, today announced the launch of its 100% Grassfed Organic Uncured Beef Hot Dogs, fully-cooked, hardwood-smoked, skinless all-beef hot dogs. Organic Prairie 100% Grassfed Hot Dogs are produced by committed ranchers, who like all Organic Valley farmer-owners across the country, work in harmony with nature—never using antibiotics, synthetic hormones, toxic pesticides or GMOs in feed or forage. …