Meat & Poultry

Butterball, LLC, the nation’s largestturkey producer, has donated 61,000 pounds of turkey to victims of theJanuary earthquake in Haiti. In conjunction with Stop Hunger Now, aninternational hunger relief agency that delivers meal packets throughoutthe world, Butterball’s donation is one of the largest donations made toHaiti’s disaster relief effort to date. …

The last butcher supply company will be moving from Detroits Eastern Market District. Butcher & Packer Supply Co. has purchased a 34,000-square-foot facility in Madison Heights to consolidate out of the five buildings it currently uses in Detroit, said President Fritz Blohm. …

A new instrument can quickly and precisely sniff minute amounts of poultry spoilage, officials at the U.S. government’s measurement standards laboratory said. …

A Buffalo County loan will help a New York-based meat company hire some employees to get the former Turkey Growers Cooperative plant back in operation. The county Economic Development Council will lend Midwest Meat Packing $100,000. The six-month, no-interest loan was approved Tuesday by county supervisors. …

Westlake Food Corporation, a Santa Ana, Calif., establishment, is recalling approximately 140,000 pounds of fully cooked assorted meat products because they contain an undeclared allergen, wheat starch, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today. Wheat is a known allergen, which is not declared on the label. …