Month: July 2017

"There is a strong underlying driver from consumers and investors that wants the (meat) industry to reduce antibiotics so there is a long-term underlying very positive trend," Chr. Hansen CEO Cees de Jong told Reuters on Wednesday, as the Danish company posted forecast-beating third-quarter results. De Jong said Chr. Hansen would soon launch a new product in the U.S. poultry market aimed at replacing antibiotics "and still get a very healthy population of birds that grow very well or even better from the same amount of feed." …

Ground beef prices are at a three-year low, and that means more people are likely to indulge, with sales projected to keep pace with last year’s surpassing $803 million around the July 4 holiday, according to a report by the market research group Nielsen. …

M&L Farms announces a recall of 383 beef, goat, and lamb carcasses with offal produced with non-potable water that failed to meet the Ohio Department of Health’s requirements in the Ohio Administrative Code for a private water system. …