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Retail Meat & Deli Department


In today’s meat and deli departments they not only carry cut beef, pork, veal, lamb and poultry but further processed meats prepared on site. Retail meats and deli departments have conformed to today’s quick pace shoppers who are looking for items that are quick to fix. Meat and deli departments have taken the model for meat processors or prepare ready to cook foods. Now we have meat and deli departments using cut produce for a complete balanced ready to cook meals. Meat and deli departments are providing for the consumers with fresh meals that fit one, two or several people at one setting. It is important when preparing single or multiple ingredients is important to control the possibility for pathogen contamination or cross contamination from using other protein and vegetable. This has been a problem for meat processors who process for foodservice needs.

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Retail Produce Departments



There has been recalls over the last 10 years for leafy vegetables, tomatoes carrots, onions etc. These recalls have been reported through the media and put scares in peoples mind about how safe our food is. Most of the contamination comes from ground water used for irrigation while produce is maturing through its natural growing cycle. Some bacteria’s can be carried through cooling towers or unclean equipment used in the processing. A lot of positive steps have been put into place during the process of value added vegetable packaging. Distribution channels can create contamination due to temperature fluctuations during shipments and cross docks. Today this has vastly improved.

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