Meat & Poultry

Raj Foods LLC., a Houston, Texas establishment, is recalling approximately 3,300 pounds of Halal beef samosa products because a meat ingredient used in the product may have been produced in a facility that is not federally inspected, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today. …

A Chicago area company has made an offer that could approach $80 million to buy Cagle's, an Atlanta-based chicken processor that has been in bankruptcy since last fall. …

Five new appointments to the 15-member National Pork Board have been announced by Agricultural Secretary Tom Vilsack. The appointees will each serve a three-year term …

Retail chicken prices in Mexico will rise by 22.4 percent, the meat Consumer Price Index (CPI) will jump 7.2 percent and the food CPI by 1.9 percent, should the Mexican government implement duties on U.S. chicken leg quarter imports, according to a study released today that assessed the likely impact of the duties on prices and inflation levels in Mexico, conducted by Dermot Hayes, Ph.D., Professor of Economics and Finance at Iowa State University. …

U.S. retail-beef prices fell to $4.669 a pound in April, from a revised record of $4.67 in March, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said in a report on its website. …