Meat & Poultry

Tyson Foods today was awarded the American Meat Institute’s (AMI) Edward C. Jones Community Service Award during the 2013 AMI International Production & Processing Exposition in Atlanta, Georgia. The award is named in honor of former AMI Board member, the late Edward C. Jones of Jones Dairy Farm, in Ft. Atkinson, Wis., who was a model of community service. …

Our piece, "Twenty Lessons Learned From Tesco’s Fresh & Easy Failure," brought many responses. Edna St. Vincent Millay was among the first women to receive the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. She advised that “It is not true that life is one damn thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over.” Which is pretty much what seems to have happened here. …

San Jose Valley Veal, a Santa Clara, Calif. establishment, is recalling approximately 1,260 pounds of veal trimmings that may be contaminated with E. Coli O157:H7, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced. …

Superior Farms, the largest lamb processor and distributor in North America, welcomed meat industry veteran Joseph Smith to its national sales team this month. …

The fate of poultry processor Zacky Farms is back up in the air after a Zacky family trust backed out of its bid to buy the troubled company in a bankruptcy auction. …