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    Plant Expansion

    Pickled Product Company Bay View Packing Doubles Throughput With Equipment Upgrades

    Andy Hanacek
    March 12, 2025
    Milwaukee, Wis.-based Bay View Packing adds a rotary chuck capper and new label applicator, allowing it to cap as many as 90 jars per minute, versus its former maximum of 40 per...
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    Animal Proteins

    Applegate Meets Regenerative Grasslands Target for Beef Nine Months Ahead of Schedule

    Andy Hanacek
    March 10, 2025
    Every Applegate natural and organic beef hot dog will be produced using 100% verified regeneratively sourced beef moving forward.
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    International

    Canada Blocks Pork Shipments from Smithfield Tar Heel, N.C., Plant

    Andy Hanacek
    March 7, 2025
    The fifth-largest export market for U.S. pork stopped accepting shipments of pork from the largest pork processing facility in the nation.
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    Legal Issues

    Michigan Pork Plant Could Lose 400 Workers After Trump Decision to End Haitian Protected Status

    Andy Hanacek
    March 6, 2025
    The future of about 400 workers at Clemens Food Group's Coldwater, Mich., plant is up in the air due to President Trump’s revoking of Temporary Protected Status, which allowed...
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    International

    Meatable Brings Global Food Experts to Netherlands to Discuss the Future of Sustainable Meat

    Andy Hanacek
    March 4, 2025
    Event brought together experts and stakeholders from around the world to learn about Meatable's cultivated meat but also to discuss how the meat industry needs to begin to develop...
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    Animal Proteins

    Trying Meatable's Cultivated Meat Product: Editor's Real-Time Reactions

    Andy Hanacek
    Feb. 25, 2025
    Food Processing Editor Andy Hanacek samples and gives his immediate review of sausages containing Meatable's cultivated meat product.
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    Marketing

    Super Bowl Sunday: The Ultimate Food & Bev Consumption Event

    Andy Hanacek
    Feb. 7, 2025
    Taking a look at some of the purchase and consumption data shared by food and beverage watchers and analysts around the biggest football day of the year in the U.S.
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    Capital Spending

    Perdido River Meats Beef Plant Opens in Atmore, Alabama

    Andy Hanacek
    Feb. 7, 2025
    Poarch Creek Indians tribe cuts the ribbon on its new, 23,000-sq.-ft. beef-processing facility and retail store.

    Recent

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    Mergers & Acquisitions

    Day-Lee Foods (NH Foods) Acquires U.S. Poultry Processor LJD Holdings Group

    Andy Hanacek
    Dec. 19, 2024
    Manufacturer of Crazy Cuizine and Day-Lee Pride products adds manufacturing capacity through acquisition of poultry processing business partner.
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    Worker Safety

    DOL Levies More Than $103,000 in Fines on Alabama Sausage Processor Dean’s Sausage Co.

    Andy Hanacek
    Dec. 13, 2024
    After the third OSHA inspection in three years, the Dept. of Labor has proposed an additional $103,245 in fines for repeat worker safety violations.
    Animal Proteins

    Standard Meat Co. Creates Sales Operations Executive Role

    Andy Hanacek
    Dec. 11, 2024
    Jill Hunter will be the company’s first senior director of Sales Operations, overseeing sales operations and project management processes.
    Plant Safety

    Carbon Monoxide Leak Sickens 11 at OSI Group’s West Jordan, Utah, Plant

    Andy Hanacek
    Dec. 9, 2024
    One woman was found unconscious but safely removed from the plant, while 10 others were also taken to local hospitals after falling ill from the CO leak over the weekend.