Meat & Poultry News

1. PerkinElmer Launches DA 7350 Instrument And Cloud-Based Software For Quality Control In Food Production 9/15/2020

   PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader committed to innovating for a healthier world, today introduced the DA 7350 instrument and Process Plus cloud-based software to provide continuous quality control for food and food ingredient manufacturing processes.

2. UGA Researchers Seek Targets To Mitigate Fescue Toxicity In Cattle 9/10/2020

   A $500,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture will allow researchers at the University of Georgia to examine the minutiae of cattle and fescue microbiome interaction to find targets that will help mitigate the effects of fescue toxicosis, a forage-related condition that costs the U.S. beef industry more than $1B each year.

3. DuPont Animal Nutrition To Partner With Proteon Pharmaceuticals In The Poultry Industry 9/9/2020

   DuPont Animal Nutrition, a business unit of DuPont Nutrition & Biosciences (DuPont), today announced a partnership with Proteon Pharmaceuticals to bring the emerging bacteriophage technology to poultry producers in selected countries, strengthening DuPont’s gut health solutions for poultry and helping to further mitigate antimicrobial resistance (AMR).

4. Tyson Foods Becomes First U.S. Food Company To Verify Sustainable Cattle Production Practices At Scale 9/9/2020

   Tyson Foods today announced its work to verify sustainable beef production practices on more than 5 million acres of cattle grazing land in the U.S.

5. Adisseo Announces The Signature Of An Agreement For The Acquisition Of FRAmelco Group 9/7/2020

   Bluestar Adisseo Company (“Adisseo”) announces the signature of an agreement to acquire FRAmelco Group, a Dutch feed additive company (meaning FRAnklin Group BV and its wholly owned subsidiaries – hereafter “FRAmelco”).

6. Improved Time Estimates Of Avian Influenza Introduction On Poultry Farms 9/7/2020

   Epidemiologists from Wageningen Bioveterinary Research (WBVR) have developed an improved method for estimating the time window for the introduction of avian influenza virus on poultry farms.

7. Marel Agrees To Acquire TREIF, A German Food Cutting Technology Provider 9/4/2020

   Marel is pleased to announce an agreement to acquire German food cutting technology provider TREIF Maschinenbau GmbH (“TREIF”).

8. Starfrost's Freezing Technology Is Making Waves In The Arctic Circle 9/3/2020

   Leroy Seafood Group is a world-leading seafood corporation with multiple operations along the coast of Norway as well as across Europe.

9. Governor Gordon Launches Meat Processing Expansion Grant Program 9/1/2020

   Governor Mark Gordon has announced the launch of the Wyoming Meat Processing Expansion Grant Program to provide support for Wyoming meat processing facilities and Wyoming citizens impacted by supply chain disruptions and regional shut-downs of processing facilities resulting from the COVID-19 public health emergency.

10. DuPont Animal Nutrition Announces Manufacturing Facility In Wuxi, China 8/29/2020

    DuPont Nutrition & Biosciences announced today the opening of a new Animal Nutrition manufacturing capability in Wuxi, China.