Advances in Meat Processing

The meat and poultry industries have continued to consolidate, which means that processing plants are larger and more centralized than was previously the case. The industries are still heavily dependent on manual labor, but also suffer from relatively high turnover so they have had to simplify and automate or mechanize tasks so new workers can be quickly and safely trained.

Emerging pathogens, such as Escherichia coli O157:H7, its toxic relatives, and Listeria monocytogenes, have, unfortunately, …