When they have not sold enough spot advertising, broadcasters air public service announcements that these days are all about how we are “in this together.”
But up and down the meat industry, the only togetherness
Continue Reading Mood turns sour as meat and poultry industry tries to keep production up with demand
COVID-19 has forced the closures of the Smithfield Foods pork processing plant in Sioux Falls, SD, and the JBS USA beef plant in Greeley, CO.
Smithfield on Easter Sunday announced the former John Morrell plant
Continue Reading Two large meat facilities shutdown because of too many employee COVID-19 cases
Saul Sanchez, a 78-year old “green hat” supervisor at the JBS beef plant in Greeley, CO, died from COVID-19 on April 7. He worked at the Greeley beef plant for more than 30 years.
After
Continue Reading Death, illness reports cause industry to get busy with COVID-19 mitigation measures
If you haven’t heard, a Seattle attorney is petitioning the USDA to make it illegal to sell meat and poultry that is contaminated with Salmonella.
Yep, as of right now — and who knows
Continue Reading Beach Beat: The faces behind the petition
Mega-producer JBS USA has banned the use of ractopamine in the hogs it purchases because it sees a trade opportunity with China where the growth drug remains prohibited. JBS, owned by JBS S.A. based in
Continue Reading JBS USA drops ractopamine amidst trade opportunities with China
Two U.S. Senators want an interagency committee authorized to review certain transactions to conduct an open-ended review of Brazil’s JBS S.A., which owns Greeley, CO-based JBS USA.
Sens. Marco Rubio, R-FL, and Bob Menendez, D-NJ,
Continue Reading Rubio and Menendez call for foreign investment probe of JBS, SA
Editor’s note: Today Food Safety News takes a look back at the Top 10 most important food safety news events for 2018. Since 2009 we’ve shared our rankings with our readers. As in past years,
Continue Reading Top 10 food safety stories of 2018
On May 8 Champion Petfoods USA Inc. was informed that three shipments of beef tallow delivered by their supplier were contaminated with pentobarbital, a tranquilizer often used to euthanize sick or fatally injured animals.
Ingestion
Continue Reading Pentobarbital continues to ‘dog’ pet food industry; beef tallow blamed
The controlling shareholder in Brazil’s JBS S.A., which in turn owns Greeley, CO-based JBS USA, is once again in federal custody in Brazil. Federal Police returned former JBS Chairman Joesley Batista to prison Friday morning,
Continue Reading Federal Police again arrest JBS shareholder Joesley Batista in Operation Carwash
Federal officials have begun releasing names of specific grocery stores and other businesses that received some of the 6.9 million pounds of recalled ground beef and non-intact beef products that are linked to a Salmonella
Continue Reading FSIS posts partial list of retailers that sold beef linked to Salmonella outbreak
JBS USA Inc. Wednesday recalled approximately almost 35,500 pounds of raw ground beef products from its Lenoir, NC, after a report of extraneous materials, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection
Continue Reading 17.7 tons of beef, mostly Kroger brand, recalled for plastic bits
