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21. New Design For Placon's Rotisserie Chicken Container Reduces Reliance On Petroleum-Based Resins
    3/19/2013

    Placon, a leader in the design and manufacture of custom and stock thermoformed food packaging products and recycled PET materials has redesigned its market-leading HomeFresh® Rotisserie Chicken Container to reduce its overall usage of petroleum-based resins

22. Neogen Responding To Horse Meat In Beef Concerns
    3/12/2013

    Neogen Corporation (NASDAQ: NEOG) has seen a spike in sales of its rapid meat speciation test kits as beef processors scramble to respond to the unscrupulous use of horse meat, and other species of meat, in the economic adulteration of beef products

23. Lactic Acid Approval For Meat Processing Leads To Opportunities For Sector Growth For Norkem
    3/10/2013

    The European Commission this week approved the use of lactic acid as a decontaminant for beef carcasses, half carcasses and quarters. Lactic acid is already used in other countries to reduce microbial surface contamination and has been used in the USA for some time

24. Talis Equipment Expands Meat Grinder Product Line
    3/8/2013

    For years, Talis Equipment has been the trusted supplier of two of the most popular and dependable brands of meat grinders available on the market today

25. Certified Flowscale Sets Benchmark
    3/8/2013

    Designed for high-volume weighing of Pelagic species, Whitefish and Salmon, Marel’s new Flowscale is a self-contained belt weigher with EU, OIML and US NTEP approvals

26. Ishida Demonstrates Meat Packing Expertise At IFFA
    3/8/2013

    A variety of meat and poultry weighing, packing, grading and quality control solutions will be demonstrated by Ishida Europe at IFFA 2013 including the launches of a new traysealer, a new grader and enhanced Weigh Batcher alongside latest innovations in X-ray and checkweigher technologies

27. EnviroLogix Launches Rapid Molecular Test Kit For Salmonella
    3/5/2013

    EnviroLogix Inc. has introduced the DNAble® Salmonella Rapid Screening Kit, a pioneering testing solution for live poultry production

28. Processors Weigh Bottom-Line Impact Of Linde Impingement Freezer
    3/5/2013

    Ideal for freezing or crusting raw or marinated meat and poultry products from chicken and fish fillets to beef patties, a patented nitrogen impingement freezer from Linde reduces dehydration and marinade losses by two or three times versus conventional cryogenic freezers to maximize product weight and increase yield

29. Octal Launches New Poultry Packaging Solution
    2/28/2013

    Octal, a global supplier of clear rigid food packaging material, has unveiled the next innovation in poultry packaging, which improves processes and cost efficiency while maintaining maximum freshness for longer lasting shelf appeal

30. Intralytix Wins Regulatory Approval For Phage-Based Food Safety Product Effective Against Salmonella
    2/28/2013

    Intralytix, Inc. announced recently that its latest food safety product, SalmoFresh, has received GRAS (Generally Recognized As Safe) recognition from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). SalmoFresh is an antimicrobial preparation for controlling the foodborne bacterial pathogen Salmonella enterica