Meat & Poultry

American Food Service, a Pico Rivera, Calif. establishment, is recalling approximately 3,170 pounds of fresh ground beef patties and other bulk packages of ground beef products that may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today. …

Only nine facilities in the state are USDA approved, with the nearest in Roseburg and Eugene. Legally, meat can be sold for retail only if it has been slaughtered and processed under federal inspection. A local USDA facility would be an alternative to shipping cattle to the Midwest, where about 90 percent of Oregon’s beef goes for processing. …

Shareholders of Tyson Foods, Inc. today elected seven people to the company’s Board of Directors, including five independent directors. The vote was announced at Tyson’s annual meeting of shareholders in Springdale, Arkansas. …

Meat exports and higher pork prices helped Tyson Foods Inc post a much larger quarterly profit that surprised Wall Street and sent the company’s shares to an eight-month high. …

In March, construction will begin on the Allegheny Highlands Agricultural Center near Monterey. The facility will include a complete USDA-inspected slaughterhouse and a small meat processing facility that should be operational by September. …