New Process Increases Stakeholder Input on Variances to ASC Standards

ASC is strengthening its Variance Requests (VR) process with greater opportunity for stakeholders such as local communities and NGOs to contribute to decisions on local variances to ASC standards.

Quirch Foods Completes Merger with Colorado Boxed Beef, Creating a Leading U.S. Distributor of Protein and Ethnic Food Products

October 29, 2020 Quirch Foods

Quirch Foods, LLC today announced that it has completed the merger with CBBC Holdings, Inc. d/b/a Colorado Boxed Beef, a protein distributor and solutions provider offering products and services to ethnic grocers and food service distributors.

Tyson Foods Workers to Replace Some Federal Inspectors at US Beef Plant

October 29, 2020 Tom Polansek, Reuters

Tyson Foods said on Tuesday it plans in January to have company employees take on duties from more than a dozen federal inspectors at a large Kansas beef plant, after getting a U.S. government waiver.

Wayne Farms’ Clint Rivers Installed for Second Term as Chairman of the National Chicken Council

October 29, 2020 National Chicken Council

Clint Rivers, President and Chief Executive Officer of Wayne Farms LLC (Oakwood, Georgia) was installed for a second term as 2020-2021 Chairman of the National Chicken Council (NCC) during NCC’s Fall Board of Directors meeting, held virtually this week.

AIPH Approves Euroflora 2021 in Genova, Italy

The International Association of Horticultural Producers (AIPH) has approved an application from Italy to host an International Horticultural Show in 2021. The C Category approval of Euroflora Genova, Italy was finalised online at the AIPH 72nd Congress on 30 September 2020.