Meat & Poultry

As opportunities for beef trade with developing countries were emerging in earnest, your national Beef Checkoff Program began focusing some of its investments in the area of “foreign marketing” in the mid-1990s. Today, the checkoff is promoting U.S. beef in more than 80 of the 228 countries across the globe, and working toward expanding that wherever opportunity knocks. …

Cargill Meat Solutions Corporation, a Springdale, Ark. establishment, is recalling approximately 185,000 pounds of ground turkey products that may be contaminated with a strain of Salmonella Heidelberg, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today. …

Vitacide Z-71 is an anti-microbial solution with a long residual life. When you apply Vitacide Z-71 to a surface, hard or soft (including fabrics), it forms a shield over the entire surface – invisible to the naked eye and imperceptible to the touch. This shield functions like a massive germ-attracting magnet, literally pulling microbes out of the air and off of the items that touch it – DESTROYING THEM on contact. …

Certified Angus Beef LLC (CAB) launched its Master’s of Brand Advantages program in late 2010 and the first class will receive their degrees at the company’s annual conference in Sunriver, Ore., later this month. The second class is in progress. “Meat experience in sales is not as in-depth as it used to be,” says Deanna Walenciak, CAB marketing director. “As our industry has changed, there are not as many people working their way up through the cut shop to sales.” …

Butterball, LLC, the nation's largest turkey producer, today announced the appointment of Rod Brenneman as the company's new chief executive officer. After an extensive search, the company came back to its first and number one candidate, who has been filling the role as interim CEO and is already familiar with the organization. …