Meat & Poultry

Beginning in 2012, dozens of popular cuts of raw meat will have “nutrition facts” labels listing total calories, calories from fat, total grams of fat and grams of saturated fat. “It’s kind of a mystery now” what’s in there, says a USC professor of preventive medicine. …

SignalDemand, the leader in predictive analytics and optimization for commodities based value chains, today announced that Farmland Foods, a division of Smithfield Foods Incorporated, has renewed its subscription to SignalDemand’s predictive analytics software service for an additional three years. As a part of this commitment, Smithfield Foods has also extended the use of the SignalDemand solution into an additional division. …

The ground beef patties were produced by Columbus Meat Market Inc., 906 W. Randolph, Dec. 27, 2010, and shipped to food-handling establishments in the Chicagoland area. Each package label on the suspect patties bears the establishment number “EST. 755” and an identifying pack date of “12/27/10.” The contamination was discovered through IDOA microbiological sampling, which confirmed a positive result for E. coli O157:H7. …

Heritage breeds are all the rage among the nation’s ever-growing number of pork aficionados, and nothing epitomizes this blast-to-porcine-past greater than the beasts on this fascinating Houston, Minn., spread. …

JBS SA, the Brazilian meat processor, may make a new offer for Sara Lee Corp. after its bid last month was rejected as too low, according to two people with knowledge of the matter. …