Koch Foods, Park Ridge, Ill., expanded its Snack Cravers product line to include boneless chicken chunks accompanied by two mix-and-match sauces, giving consumers multiple sauce selections.
Electronic Article Surveillance (EAS) 4010 EP Food Label from Checkpoint Systems, Inc., Thorofare, N.J., earns certification as microwave-safe from TUV Rheinland, a testing and certification group based in Germany.
House of Raeford Farms, Rose Hill, N.C., will be phasing out its commodity turkey growing and slaughter operations in eastern N.C., to focus its resources on increasing chicken production volumes and expanding its fully cooked turkey and chicken product lines over the next 2-3 years.
The National Chicken Council, Washington, D.C.; National Turkey Federation, Washington, D.C.; USA Poultry & Egg Export Council, Stone Mountain, Ga.; and U.S. Poultry & Egg Association, Tucker, Ga., signed a collaboration agreement.
Harold Ford, retired executive director of what was then Southeastern Poultry & Egg Association (now U.S. Poultry & Egg Association, Tucker, Ga.), passed away Dec. 14.
