C1 New Meat Packaging Gains Supermarkets are selling more "case ready" meat in an effort to compete with Wal-Mart.
The rise in sales of raw meat packaged with ready-made sauces is another risk for contamination.
For example, offering packaging which enables consumers to reseal their fresh meat products will drastically increase fridge life, and tray design which allows easier freezing of meat packaging can offer simple portion control measures".
The database, dubbed Combase, pulls together microbial growth data in various environments taking note of temperature, pH, and water activity and alerting users to predicted contamination levels during the meat packaging process.
Without the support of the retail industry we would not be able to manufacture meat packaging which has the potential to counteract the large scale waste of food across Britain".
The company behind paper bags, pizza boxes, paper coffee cups, cleaning product supplies, meat packaging and toilet roll deliveries said the recession was hitting its customers but that did not necessarily mean a fall in business for Bunzl.
But the grocery chain said it had no procedures in place to watch the codes on arriving meat packages, and therefore failed to notice it was getting beef from a packing plant it had never approved.
A group of families whose children were sickened or even killed by illnesses associated with tainted meat wrote to President Bush today asking him to adopt the rules and tighten other regulations governing how animals are slaughtered and their meat packaged for consumption.
As part of this effort, the office of City Councilwoman Gale A. Brewer recently published the Age-Friendly West Side Grocery Guide, which analyzes 23 grocery stores in her district, and lists them according to amenities that older people may find appealing, like restrooms accessible to the disabled, seating, senior discounts and meat packaged in small amounts.
Research on the technology was published earlier this year, and food industry magazine Food Production Daily reported on the new software on May 2. While meat packaging plants rely on sensors to get readings on pathogen contamination, a new nanotechnology-based biosensor announced in March and being developed by US researchers aims to give the industry a boost.
