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Antibiotics a 'serious health threat'
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Antibiotics in meat production a 'serious health threat' The heavy use of antibiotics in meat and poultry is one of the nation's most serious health threats, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said this week. The report highlights the drug-resistant superbugs that are now prevalent...
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Here is one for your company suggestion box
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LAKELAND, Fla. — LED technology has saved nearly 100,000 kilowatt-hours annually per Publix Super Markets store. Refrigerated doors stay lit for only one minute after motion is detected, Publix wrote in a Facebook post. The LED technology, currently in use in more than 650 stores, can redu...
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The Danish Meat Trade College
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In Denmark all the supermarkets and the private butcher shops are using skilled retail butchers. The education as butcher is divided into an industrial version for the slaughter houses/deboning plants and one especially for the butcher shops. The education takes 3½ years and is a combination of...
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Asking for advice: Experienced specialty shop cutter moving to a grocery chain.
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Hello again everyone, this is my second or third post and I have to say I've been very pleased to find this resource. Basically, I've been in meat for almost two years. Started as a wrapper/cleaner at a specialty store in Virginia and started getting trained on cutting about 2 months into the whole thi...
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What is this thing on the side of a grinder for?
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Do you know what this thing is for on the side of the grinder? What attaches to it? Does meat go in it, or out from it?
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Meet Todd Richardson, COO/EVP and meat director for Ga.-based Shop-Rite Supermarkets
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Today I went by to see Todd Richardson, COO/EVP and meat director for Rossville, Ga.-based Shop-Rite Supermarkets. He had filled out one of the surveys for North West Georgia Tech College to help us get the Meat Cutting Course added to their curriculum. Todd says he sees a lot of good things comin...
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PINE STREET MARKET LOOKING FOR A DIRECTOR OF PRODUCTION
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Club member Rusty Bowers and owner of He is a artisan butcher specializing in hand-made artisan Salamis, Sausages, Cured Meats & Applewood smoked Bacon. (Sopressata, Chorizo, Saucisson Sec, Bratwurst, Kielbasa, Mettwurst, Coppa, Pancetta) IS NOW LOOKING FOR A DIRECTOR OF PRODUC...
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Dario Cecchini: "Carne et Spirito"
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Descended from a long-line of Italian butchers, Dario now runs a butchery, Antica Macelleria Cecchini, alongside three restaurants all in the small town of Panzano, Chianti. Has a English translator
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Is your employee doing this? attendance problem! help!
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Happy Fall 2013, hope everyone had a great summer! Problem looking for advice: my good employee comes in late and leaves early I have a great employee, he works 7 to 12 so paid hourly to start working at 7 and stop at 12 I found out he has been coming in the building some days at 7, getting a coffee etc, really...
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Does anyone want to start their own shop?
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Reply pz3j7-4026231855@sale.craigslist.org [?] flag [?] : miscategorized prohibited spam best of Posted: 2013-08-26, 8:33AM EDT meat market and grocery store liquidation - $15000 (flint, michigan) many items for sale pre auction. making deals. call TJ at 810-569-7665Locati...
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Bi-Lo To Acquire 22 Piggly Wigglys In S.C., Coastal Ga.
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Bi-Lo Holdings To Acquire 22 Piggly Wigglys In S.C., Coastal Ga. POSTED BY: KRISTEN | POSTED ON: SEPTEMBER 12, 2013Bi-Lo Holdings HAS ENTERED INTO A DEFINITIVE AGREEMENT WITH Piggly Wiggly Carolina Co. to acquire 22 Piggly Wiggly stores in South Carolina and coastal Georgia. The acqui...
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The return of LFTB — maybe
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Worker dies after falling into meat grinder
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Bandsaw Bob sent me this, says it's a VERY good reminder to shut off power to all machines before cleaning Worker dies after falling into meat grinder http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2013/05/oregon-worker-dies-after-falling-into-meat-grinder/#.UjDExKTD_IV and Feet first int...
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Albertson's Buying United of Texas
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BOISE, Idaho — Albertson's LLC said Monday that it has agreed to acquire The United Family, a privately owned chain of 50 supermarkets based in Lubbock, Texas, operating under three banners. Terms were not disclosed.“United has built an exemplary operation in Texas, complementary to our own go-...
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Fresh & Easy Markets plans to shut down 50 stores
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EL SEGUNDO, Calif. — Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Market here said Tuesday it plans to shut down approximately 50 stores over the next two weeks — locations it is not selling to Yucaipa Cos. — although it will continue to seek buyers for those locations.Yucaipa, the Los Angeles-based investment...
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FDA Finally Admits Chicken Meat Contains Cancer-Causing Arsenic
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FDA Finally Admits Chicken Meat Contains Cancer-Causing ArsenicAugust 16, 2013 by Collective EvolutionAfter years of sweeping the issue under the rug and hoping no one would notice, the FDA has now finally admitted that chicken meat sold in the USA contains arsenic, a cancer-causing toxic che...
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ART V SCIENCE
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Watching head butcher Mike Lindsay `break down’ a leg of beef is like watching a contemporary dance. It’s a performance he has done a thousand times before and it shows. He does the job for the most part with just a hook and a relatively small knife talking as he goes about changes in the industry over the...
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Another job ad for you
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Here is another example of something we discussed months ago. A large chain store will post a job ad when they are not really looking to hire just to keep up a stack of applications incase of a strIke. I wish they would mention that on top instead of on the bottom. Meijer is a leading Supercenter loc...
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Whole tenderloins
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How many tenderloins do you cut day/week? Well this week I kept track. Mon-14 tues-31 (order for 65 8-9oz center cut) wed-4 Thurs-6 Fri-off Sat- 13 Sun-29 This is just me, we did do 305-310k for the week. Busy week, and yes we have very good hamburger and stew meat,kabobs!
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Meat inspector: “We are no longer in charge of safety”
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"Chunks" of feces are making it through the USDA's flawed meat inspection program BY LINDSAY ABRAMS Enlarge(Credit: Picsfive/Shutterstock)A pilot program meant to identify contamination at meat plants has been failing to do so for the past 15 years. The USDA plans to roll it out nationwide, a...
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