Case-Ready Fresh Red Meat: Is it Here or Not?

Flip through packaging trade and technical journals, and you will see two technologies vying for space: polyester beer bottles and case-ready fresh red meat. Prowl the pages of beverage magazines, and you will see that the dominant discussion is about plastic beer bottles. Look no further than the covers of meat trade publications, and the sole topic seems to be “case ready is here,” or “case ready credentials,” or some such headline.

And accessing the Web on food packaging drags the reader to th…