Case-Ready Packaging for Red Meat

Many hundreds of publications have been published about case-ready meat, but only a relatively small proportion of beef has been converted to this more efficient, economical, and safer centralized packaging. Reasons for the slow pace of retailer and consumer acceptance have been presented and argued with objectivity and emotion on all sides. Perhaps the realities lie in some of the technical challenges to be met or the bewildering array of solutions that have been suggested and introduced.

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