U.S. Senators Deb Fischer (R-Neb.) and Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) earlier this week led a letter to Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael S. Regan urging the agency to withdraw a proposed rule covering wastewater discharged by meat and poultry processors. Nine of their Senate Republican colleagues and 17 of their House Republican colleagues also joined the letter.
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) will exclude current commercial vaccine subtypes of Salmonella confirmed in FSIS raw poultry samples from the calculation used to categorize establishments under the raw poultry Salmonella performance standards. Effective April 1, 2024, the announcement was made in FSIS’s Constituent Update.
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By 2035, Gen Z will be the primary purchasers of protein, and this will have a significant impact on the way that chicken is raised, processed and marketed. While taste, affordability and convenience will always matter, there’s still a lot of debate about what else the consumers of tomorrow will be looking for. Members of Gen Z – born between 1997 and 2002 – have always known cell phones and are considered digital natives. They increasingly say that they’re more concerned about sustainability and animal welfare than any generation before them. But how will those values change as this demographic grows up and it’s time for them to buy protein for themselves and their families?
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Wayne-Sanderson Farms is constructing a state-of-the-art feed mill at the company’s Danville Fresh Processing Complex, according to a company press release. Purpose-designed and built to serve 125 family farm partners in the region, the new mill will provide complete nutrition solutions for local farmers.
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