A new study that was pre-published on October 20 in the journal, Poultry Science, analyzed data collected from July 2018 through July 2019 from 97 broiler slaughter establishments to evaluate the relationship, if any, between slaughter line speeds across establishments operating under the same inspection system and frequencies of positive Salmonella samples. This is the first study to provide recent survey data assessing line speed and Salmonella contamination rates on chicken carcasses.
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Consumer dollars being spent on food are occurring at a pace that is “encouraging”, according to the Daily Livestock Report (DLR). Although total dollars going to the food industry were down 2.4 percent in September, the decline was the smallest since March (-2.2 percent) when the onset of the pandemic began, according to Census Bureau/Department of Commerce data cited by Daily Livestock Report (DLR).
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Total frozen poultry supplies on September 30, 2020 were down two percent from the previous month and down three percent from a year ago, according to USDA’s latest Cold Storage report.
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