DAKOTA DUNES, S.D. — With demand for its product continuing to rebound, Beef Products Inc. will reopen its Garden City, Kansas, plant next week.
The complex in southwest Kansas was one of three plants the company closed in May 2012 after a broadcast and social media-driven controversy over its Lean Finely Textured Beef, or LFTB, which critics called "pink slime."
BPI said it anticipates hiring 40 to 45 employees at Garden City to collect fresh beef trimmings from an adjacent Tyson Foods beef plant starting on Aug. 18. The trimmings will support increased production at BPI's South Sioux City, Nebraska, plant, which will remain the company's only LFTB manufacturing site.
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