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| # 195- Nov 2003 |
| New Technology - Meat Products |
Meat process, products and technologies
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See also : Traceability - MSU Panel provides feed back to animal science researchers (Gladwin County Record, Nov 5, 2003) Developing meat animals that produce the favorable characteristics that consumers are looking for in their food is often the focus of research at the Michigan State University departments of Animal Science and Food Science and Human Nutrition. Yet, until recently, MSU researchers had to depend on instrumentation or another university to provide the critical sensory evaluation on the meat harvested to complete their research trials... - Australia Science Targets Bacteria as Industry Booms (Reuters, Oct 29, 2003) Australian scientists are creating a range of bacteria-based products, which can clean up toxic dumps and convert waste into usable material, to tap into a $5 billion a year global environmental biotechnologies industry... - U.S.: Automatic Poultry Inspection Goes On Line (ARS USDA, Oct 15, 2003) The Automatic Poultry Inspection System developed by Agricultural Research Service scientists is ready for its first long-term testing in commercial processing plants, having just successfully passed a four-day test in a commercial broiler-processing plant. The recent test was done at speeds of 140 to 180 birds per minute (bpm)... - Leading Beef Industry Data Services Companies Unite to Establish Beef Information Exchange (PR Newswire, Oct 8, 2003) A coalition of five leading agricultural data service companies today jointly announced plans to create the beef industry's first data exchange standards. The five participating companies, each actively involved in the USDA-APHIS National Identification Development Team, are establishing the Beef Information Exchange to address the need for a uniform set of data movement standards among the nation's beef industry producers.. - New Zealand: Buying time for meat buyers (NZH, Aug 19, 2003) Time is money in business, which is why more companies are investing in mobile applications that allow them to free up more of the former... - Swift & Co. using new food-safety system (Amarillo Globe News, Aug 13, 2003) Swift & Co. has implemented a revolutionary new "double pasteurization" system at the company's six U.S. beef processing plants - providing a significant enhancement to Swift's industry-leading food safety protocols... - Polyvalent flavour enhancer (Food Navigator, July 16 2003) Researchers have identified a flavour enhancer that could be used to reduce salt, sugar and monosodium glutamate (MSG) levels in our foods. The new compound is said to be the first to be found possessing each of the salty, sweet and... - Scientists working toward tick resistance in cattle (ABC NEWS, July 15 2003) Scientists are combining 25 years of on-ground research and the latest in gene technology to pinpoint tick resistance in cattle.The aim of this project, run by the industry and the Beef Cooperative Research Centre, is to find the genes responsible for the resistance... - U.S.: FDA OKs Elanco's meat promoter (Indystar, June 21, 2003) Tests show Optaflexx makes beef cattle gain 6 to 18 more pounds of higher-value cuts. Elanco Animal Health said Friday that it had gained federal approval to sell a meat promoter for beef cattle... - Ultrasound Used to Detect Quality Beef (ARS-USDA, Apr 01, 2003) In the doctor's office, obstetricians use ultrasound machines to check on the health of a fetus. On the farm, researchers are using the same device to determine which cattle will produce lean, tasty steaks... - Excel placing meat-scanning equipment in Schuyler (Colombus Telegram, Mar 26, 2003) Excel Corp. said it will place equipment in its Schuyler meatpacking plant to help detect bacterial contamination on beef carcasses. Being sold by eMerge Interactive Inc. of Sebastian, Fla., the equipment uses wave- lengths of light to detect microscopic levels of possible contamination that could harbor bacteria such as harmful strains of E. coli... - U.S.: Web site helps ranchers care for cattle (Zwire, Mar 06, 2003) The University of Arizona has created a Web site that could help ranchers determine where on their property to put their cattle to make sure the animals are properly fed. Ranchers now have to ride on horseback or drive from acre to acre on their ranches to check on the health of their grazing pastures... - “Irradiated Ground Beef Product” from Performance Food (Food Ingredients First, Feb 25, 2003) Richmond, Performance Food Group Co. introduced a new product category called "Irradiated Ground Beef Products," to categorize meat that is electronically disinfected.The company will partner with... - Project seeks faster test to detect mad cow disease (Daily Yomuri, Feb 24, 2003) A team of researchers from Hokkaido University and the Obihiro University of Agricultural and Veterinary Medicine, together with precision instrument manufacturers, will launch... - Tender beef takes off in Australia (Food production,Feb 20, 2003) ...According to Genetic Solutions, some of the biggest cattle breed societies in Australia have embraced the world-first beef tenderness genetic test which was launched commercially in Brisbane at the end of last year…. - Electrical stimulation used to tenderise chicken (Food Production, Dec 23, 2002)A unique device to determine the quality of meat and meat products has been developed in Moscow. Its authors are scientists from the national Meat Industry Research Institute, test laboratory of the main ... A new tenderising process has been developed by scientists at the US-based Agricultural Research Service which may allow older, egg-producing layer hens to be processed like younger birds... - Studying what makes beef tender, MSU researchers discover that steers may have what it takes (Great Falls Tribune, Dec 22, 2002) Tenderness is a male trait, at least when it comes to beef steaks - the kinds served with a baked potato and side salad. Initial results of a Montana State University-Bozeman study show steers consistently produce cuts of meat that are more tender than their heifer counterparts.. - Swedes test new way of generating energy from dead animals (Yahoo News, Dec 05, 2002) Swedish companies have developed a way of burning dead farm animals that generates energy while reducing the risk of mad cow disease. The Swedish Board of Agriculture said it would give 2.5 million kronor (US$276,000) in grants to three companies developing the method,... - Australia : Scientists find beef tenderness test (ABC News, Nov 27, 2002) As the effects of the drought continue to bite, there is some potentially good news this morning for beef producers and, for that matter, lovers of red meat. A Brisbane-based company has developed the world's first commercial DNA test for beef tenderness... - Sold! Cattle auctions go online (CNN News, Nov 11, 2002) Cattle broker Jeff Ferguson can buy livestock without getting his boots dirty. He doesn't even have to leave the office. Instead, he looks the animals over and places his bids via the Internet, using one of a growing number of Web sites devoted to cattle auctions... - No Yoke: Behold the Crackless Egg (Lycos News, Oct 23,2002) A Canadian company is betting its new application will cause some eggs-citement among poultry producers. Sensor Wireless, a technology firm on this tiny island province, has developed the Crackless Egg... - Solving production moisture problems (FoodProduction, Oct 21,2002) Food safety scares in both the US and Europe have drawn food processors' attention to desiccant dehumidification systems, which ensure the right levels of humidity within food production facilities… USDA to Label Organic Foods (Lycos News, Oct 21,2002) New labels appearing on some organic foods this week will tell consumers the products were grown by a specially certified farmer who does not use conventional pesticides, fertilizers or biotechnology to produce them… - UCSF develops faster, more sensitive mad cow detector (SanDiego News, Oct 20, 2002) Scientists at the University of California, San Francisco have developed a new mad cow disease detector they claim is faster and more accurate than existing models and could "significantly reduce human exposure" to the fatal brain-destroying malady… - Ireland : Cattle performance data-gathering goes hi-tech (Irish Examiner, Oct 18, 2002) Gathering performance data on Irish cattle has gone hi-tech as a result of a new initiative. The Irish Cattle Breeding Federation, O2 Ireland and Sord Data Systems have linked up for the new and innovative approach to gathering the data on Irish cattle... - Shell shock for bred hens (ic Wales, Sept 17, 2002) Most people associate eggs with being white, speckled, or of varying shades of brown but egg producers are adding a splash of colour to their egg boxes… - Frontier Beef Systems and GeneSeek Team Up to Provide Centralized DNA Services For the Beef Industry (Yahoo News, Sept 09, 2002) Two leading livestock genetics companies have signed an agreement to provide state-of-the- art, affordable genetic services to the North American beef industry. Cooperating to fill a major void, Frontier Beef Systems LLC (FBS) and GeneSeek Inc. will offer tissue sample storage and DNA-based testing services to producers, branded beef companies, packers, cooperatives and alliances... - EU parliament backs proposals for tighter packaging controls (Boston.com, Sept 03, 2002) The European Union parliament on Tuesday backed plans to introduce tighter rules on packaging material, seeking to force industry to make 65 percent of product packaging recyclable by 2008... - Pathogen screening system (Fodd Production Aug 21, 2002) DuPont Qualicon is to start distributing its acclaimed BAX system, an automated testing platform for food-borne pathogens, in both Europe and Australia… - A dynamite meat recipe Research: Morse B. Solomon is using explosives in a meat tenderizing and sanitizing process. Morse B. Solomon thinks he's found a great steak recipe: several pounds of tough, low-grade meat, several gallons of water, the equivalent of a quarter-stick of dynamite. Mix carefully and explode... - Syscan to provide Canadian Cattle Identification Agency with RFID solution Syscan International announced today that it has been selected to provide its RFID (radio frequency identification) technology and expertise in a major cross Canada trial to be carried out by the Canadian Cattle Identification Agency. The trial, which will be underwritten by the agency, is designed to verify the merits of converting the current manual and barcode based system to a RFID based system... - Process cuts bacteria and tenderizes meat Pilot projects at small meatpacking plants are showing that technology developed by a St. Paul company is producing a uniform tenderness in beef which raises the value of lesser cuts of meat, while achieving its goal of reducing bacterial contamination and cholesterol in beef products... - Meat 'grown' in laboratory for space travellers The day when food is produced in industrial quantities without the slaughter of animals or fish has moved closer after scientists made chunks of flesh grow bigger in a tank of nutrients... - New process agreement between eMerge Interactive and Excel eMerge Interactive, Inc. (Nasdaq: EMRG), a technology company providing individual-animal tracking, food safety and supply-procurement services to the $40-billion U.S. beef-production industry, and Excel Corporation, a leading U.S. beef processor and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Cargill Incorporated, today announced an agreement to integrate eMerge's VerifEYE(TM) meat inspection system into Excel's beef operations to finalize specifications for commercialization... - Protein hydrolysis and much more (Novozymes 4 Feb 2002) As senior marketing manager for Special Industries, Kurt Thomsen's job at Novozymes is certainly varied. One day he is investigating the market for enzymes for pharmaceuticals and the next day he is launching an improved enzyme for yeast extract production. His area even covers enzymes for use at the bottom of oil wells. Nevertheless, most of the applications he covers are in food processing and the majority of the enzymes used are proteases... - Plant to test tainted-meat detector(OrlandoSentinel 5 Feb 2002) A Florida company's breakthrough device that allows meatpackers to see and remove microscopic traces of contamination is moving from the prototype stage to commercial testing. The scanner system, dubbed VerifEye, is licensed by eMerge Interactive Inc. of Sebastian, in Indian River County... - Novartis enters U.S. farm animal market (Yahoo News, 18 Jan 2002) Novartis has bought U.S. firms Grand Laboratories Inc and ImmTech Biologics Inc, marking its entry into the world's largest farm animal vaccine market, the Swiss healthcare group said on Thursday... - B2B Vertical Markets invests in Viewtrak Technologies - B2B Internet-based solution first to provide integrated food source management system for beef industry (Yahoo News, 18 Dec 2001) B2B Vertical Markets Inc., a joint venture between RBC Financial Group and Mediagrif Interactive Technologies Inc. announced today that it has purchased a 51% interest in Viewtrak Technologies Inc., an established company bringing B2B solutions to the beef industry…. - Richmond tests revolutionary sealer for future world sales (NZH News, 5 Dec 2001) Meat exporter Richmond has begun using a world-first packaging system that it says will substantially cut company costs. The vacuum seal system automates a process which previously had to be done manually... - Fifteenth Packing Plant Orders Anitech System (Yahoo News, 14 Nov 2001) Foods Inc. has ordered Anitech's DT-500 Data Collection System for its Calgary, Alberta beef packing plant to collect qualitative carcass data, track carcasses and, facilitate compliance with Canada's cattle identification program. XL already uses the Anitech system at their beef plant in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan... - Anitech Enterprises Inc.: Nine-Month Results-Quarterly Results Continue To Improve (Yahoo News, 13 Nov 2001) ...Recent orders for ten pork grading probes from five packing plants will have a positive impact on fourth quarter earnings as the probes are delivered to customers. The Company was successful in selling its electronic pork grading technology into the large Quebec pork packing industry... - Australia : Full electronic traceback a step closer for beef industry (MLA, 13 Nov 2001) The beef industry is moving a step closer to a fully integrated, electronic paddock to plate traceback system with the development underway of a system that can track a retail pack of meat back to the farm... - Beef needs a better breed (The Scotsman, 13 Nov 2001) Commercial suckler cow beef producers must think carefully about replacement females, said Professor Geoff Simm of the Scottish Agriculture College yesterday, because the quality of the national herd has been declining for years... - Food Technology Service, Inc. Reports Continued Profits (Yahoo News, 10 Oct 2001) Food Technology Service Inc., today announced results for the third quarter ending September 30, 2001. Quarterly profits were $16,808 compared to a loss of $82,781 during the third quarter of 2000... - X-ray inspection boosts confidence through the pipeline (Packaging Digest, 01 Oct 2001) Pipeline x-ray unit at Philly Cheesesteak detects minute bone pieces and other nonmetallic contaminants in formed beef and chicken. Rugged system operates at line speeds and withstands wide temperature swings... - Another Quebec Meat Packer Orders Anitech Grading Probe (Anitech PR, 26 Sept 2001) Les Viandes du Breton Inc., a worldwide leader in swine production, genetics, and pork processing, has ordered two Anitech PG-100 Pork Grading Probes for their pork packing plant in Quebec... - Breakthrough In Quebec For Anitech Technology (Anitech PR, 20 Sept 2001) Canada's largest exporter of pork products, has ordered six Anitech PG-100 Pork Grading Probes to replace competing probes at Olymel's three pork plants in Quebec. This represents a breakthrough, as Quebec was the only Canadian province where Anitech was not the primary supplier of grading and data collection systems to the pork industry…. - Scientist says he can create meat without killing animals (Ananova, 20 Sept 2001) A Dutch scientist says he can create artificial meat in laboratories without killing animals. Wiete Westerhof, from the University of Amsterdam, plans to use the same method used to produce artificial skin... - Townsend and Stork Join Forces (Meat News, 18 Sept 2001) Major sausage and meat processing machinery manufacturers become a new power in the meat processing machinery industry. The integration of the manufacturing operations of Townsend and Stork Protecon-Langen has created a giant in the supply of equipment to the meat processor... - NetTrends: Internet cattle auction meshes old with new (Yahoo News, 05 Sept 2001) For more than 100 years cattle auctions in the United States have been local affairs with buyers sitting ringside and bidding with a wave of the hand or nod of the head... - Pechiney Completes Acquisition of Soplaril (Yahoo News, 16 Aug 2001) today announced that it has completed the acquisition of Soplaril, a leading European flexible packaging manufacturer. The acquisition was announced on May 29 and has received approval of all of the relevant competitive authorities... - New plant designed to process animal waste into oil (KS Star, 28 July 2001) Imagine the most awful stuff -- the guts and other wastes of poultry piled high on American farms and at giant packing houses, the places that give us our Butterball turkeys…. - EMerge posts wider loss but sees turnaround soon (Yahoo News, 27 July 2001) EMerge Interactive Inc., which makes marketing and management software for the beef production industry, said Thursday its second-quarter loss widened to $24.2 million, but forecast it would have positive cash flow in the third quarter... - Perdue AgriRecycle Opens First Pellet Fertilizer Plant (Yahoo News, 10 July 2001) The first rail shipment of an organic, commercial fertilizer manufactured from used poultry litter rolled out of Sussex County, Del., today, carrying excess nutrients produced by the region's broiler industry to nutrient-deficient grain farms in the Midwest. The train was christened by Delaware Governor Ruth Ann Minner... - Electricity from fat and bones (The Scotsman, 28 Jun 2001) A £20 million plant to convert waste animal fat and bones into biodiesel and electricity should be ready to start work in Lanarkshire by early 2003... - Next Step in the Evolution of the Beef and Poultry Industry: Provision X v. 2.0 (PR Newswire, 15 Jun 2001) Provision X, a neutral, web-based private industry network for buyers and sellers of beef, pork and poultry products, today announced the release of Provision X v. 2.0,... - eMerge to Cut 15 Percent of Work Force (Yahoo News, 15 May 2001) eMerge Interactive Inc., which provides software for the U.S. beef production industry, on Tuesday said it would discontinue its online store and cut about 60 jobs, or 15 percent of its work force, as part of a reorganization plan... - Anitech Increases Revenue By 19% In 2000 And Develops Dt-500 (Beef Application) (Yahoo News, 15 May 2001) In Response To 'Mad Cow' And 'Hoof And Mouth' Diseases: Company Positioned For Growth In 2000 Anitech's revenue increased by 19% to $1.9 million and EBITDA increased to $142,545, more than doubling last year's EBITDA of $67,495, before a non-recurring charge the prior year... - Supermarket event showcases quick, easy meals (Nando Times, 10 May 2001) If meals get any easier to prepare, you may have to set the table and call the family before you start cooking. Meat loaf can be ready in four minutes; spaghetti and meat sauce in three... - Food Technology Service, Inc. Reports Profits (Yahoo News, 07 May 2001) Food Technology Service Inc. today announced record results for the quarter ending March 31, 2001. Revenues and profits were up over the same period a year ago... - Sealed Air first-qtr profit drops (Yahoo News, 25 Apr 2001) Sealed Air Corp. on Wednesday reported that its first-quarter net profit dropped 37 percent, and that its sales would continue to be hurt by lower red-meat consumption and supply in Europe due to outbreaks of foot-and-mouth and mad cow disease…. - CTB International Corp. to Webcast First Quarter Earnings Conference Call (Businesswire, 19 Apr 2001) CTB International Corp., a leading designer, manufacturer and marketer of systems for the poultry, hog, egg production, and grain industries, today announced that a conference call reviewing its first quarter results will be publicly available on the Internet via a live webcast... - Virtual market cancelled (The Times, 13 Apr 2001) A sale of 1,200 beef cattle has been cancelled after a last- minute U-turn by the Scottish Executive. The cancellation has raised fears for animal welfare as thousands of farmers in the foot-and-mouth free north of Scotland face shortage of feed to keep animals on the farm... - Cattle trade to restart with a virtual market (The Times, 12 Apr 2001) Hundreds of farmers and dealers are expected to gather at a Scottish auction mart tomorrow for one of the strangest sales of the year: a livestock auction without any animals in the ring... - NZ Electronic Export Certificate To Guarantee Clean Meat (Yahoo News, 05 Apr 2001) The government will introduce electronic certification to help stem a black market in meat falsely tagged as coming from New Zealand to cash in on the country's freedom from mad cow disease, agriculture officials said Thursday... - Hub Meat Packers Orders Anitech System (Yahoo News, 04 Apr 2001) Hub Meat Packers, an integrated meat processing plant in Atlantic Canada owned by Maple Leaf Meats, is the fourth beef plant to order Anitech's DT-500 Data Collection System. (Press Release)... - Alcide Corporation Announces Financial Results For Fiscal Year 2001 Third Quarter and Nine Months Ended February 28, 2001 (Businesswire, 03 Apr 2001) Alcide Corporation today announced net sales and earnings for its fiscal third quarter and for the nine month period which ended February 28, 2001…. - Sealed Air Earnings Lower Than Expected (Yahoo News, 30 Mar 2001) Specialty packing products maker Sealed Air Corp. on Friday said its first-quarter results would be lower than expected as beef consumption and meat supply falls in Europe because of the foot-and-mouth and mad cow disease outbreak... - McCallum pledges future funding to meat packing lab (Gazette Extra, 20 Mar 2001) Gov. Scott McCallum pledged Monday to fund a new laboratory at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to study meatpacking technology. McCallum said he included plans for the project in his 2001-03 building budget. If approved by the Legislature, the $20 million in funding for the project would be allocated in the 2003-05 building budget... - French discover new test to screen for BSE (The Telegraph, 29 Jan 2001) A TEST that offers the prospect of screening apparently healthy cattle and people for bovine spongiform encephalopathy has been developed, offering an opportunity to obtain accurate estimates of the scale of the epidemics... - Mad-cow test a boon for firm (Yahoo news, 25 Jan 2001) A study being released today about a test marketed by Hercules-based Bio-Rad Laboratories could help ease intense European fears about mad cow disease and help politicians make better decisions about the meat European supermarkets can safely sell... - Bio Rad Laboratories Meets Need for Accurate Mad Cow Tests (Yahoo news, 17 Jan 2001) Bio-Rad Laboratories, a U.S.-based company, has become the leading player in safeguarding Europe's food chain in the Continent's re-ignited fight against Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), commonly known as "Mad Cow Disease." Since November, Bio-Rad has shipped in excess of 120,000 tests…. - Scientists battle meat bacteria with explosives (ABC, 21 Dec 2000) Scientists have come up with a novel way to tenderise meat - blow it up with explosives. Researchers at the US Agricultural Research Service in Beltsville, Maryland, have found the blast not only breaks down tough fibres in the meat, it also zaps food-poisoning bacteria... - Study boost for cattle stunning (The Scotsman, 13 Dec 2000) MEAT trade interest in the electrical stunning of cattle is expected to be boosted by a study carried out by the Department of meat animal science at Bristol University. This concluded the system may be more welfare-friendly to the animals, safer for the operatives and acceptable to religions that demand ritual slaughter... - Wireless Earnings Boost Titan (Yahoo news, 7 Nov 2000) Shares of Titan Corp. surged 21 percent to close at $16.94 Thursday after the company released an earnings report showing strong growth in its wireless division. Not including costs related to Titan's acquisitions of AverStar and Advanced Communication Systems, the company reported earnings per share of 20 cents, 43 percent higher than the 14 cents reported in the same period last year... - Pork Lard Makes Good Fuel (Yahoo news, 15 Oct 2000) - That somewhat peculiar practice of saving bacon grease in tin cans may finally come in handy during the next oil crisis. According to researchers at Penn State University, lard and choice white grease from pigs could crank up steam boilers in the basements of office and apartment buildings... - Canada : Distribution Agreement For Latin America, the Carribean and Spain (03 Oct 2000) Toronto, Ontario — Anitech has signed a Distribution Agreement with Sis-Pro,Inc, to distribute Anitech’s DT-500 Data Collection System and PG-100 Electronic Pork Grader. Sis-Pro will represent Anitech in countries throughout Latin America, and the Carribean including Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Argentina…
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- Author :MHR Viandes(MHR VIANDES)
- Date updated :06/11/03
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