USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) will launch a year-long nationwide pilot project to assess whether retailers are using the recommendations in the FSIS Best Practices Guidance for Controlling Listeria monocytogenes (Lm) in retail delicatessens.
New rotary continuous cooking and cooling system from Lyco Manufacturing help Roundy’s Supermarkets process more than 3,000 pounds of pasta and potatoes per hour, with 300% higher throughput, improved controls flexibility, near-zero downtime and 300% faster cleanup for product changeovers.
The International Dairy-Deli-Bakery Association, Madison, Wis.; the International Dairy Foods Association, Washington, D.C.; and GS1 US, Lawrenceville, N.J., implemented a new guideline for leveraging GS1 global standards for traceability processes in the dairy, deli and bakery supply chain.
Now available to grocery and deli retailers nationwide, Tyson Simply Fried Boneless Fried Chicken provides deli shoppers with home-style fried chicken taste.
Responding to consumers’ desire for minimally-processed, pre-sliced meats, Columbus Foods, Hayward, Calif., expanded its Farm to Fork Naturals line to include several grab-and-go salames and a new pre-sliced salame variety.
Supermarket food, packaging and supplies distributor Lipari Foods, Warren, Mich., said it purchased Eastside Deli, a Lansing, Mich. processor and supplier of ready-to-eat sandwiches.
Supermarket retailing giant The Kroger Co., Cincinnati, said it recognized several key supplier partners for "exceptional contributions" to Kroger's private label business.
Frozen sandwich processor Deli Express, Eden Prairie, Minn., said that after making a 2010 second quarter donation of $50,745, it has surpassed $250,000 in total donations to the National Military Family Association.