This webinar features a panel of thought leaders from pioneering companies such as Perdue, Harpak-ULMA Packaging, and Risco, exploring cutting-edge meat packaging solutions, including advancements in case-ready thermoforming, and their broader implications on food waste reduction, supply chain efficiency, and cost reduction.

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Conversations surrounding nutritious and sustainable food often focus on plant-based options, even though the majority of consumers consider meat to be a dietary staple. This webinar aims to help suppliers and retailers promote the value of soy-fed pork to an increasingly quality-conscious consumer market, who isn’t giving up meat anytime soon.

Experts in veg-fed meat production and promotion will delve into consumer preferences for healthy and high-quality products. Attendees will come away from the session with an understanding of soy-fed pork’s production and benefits as well as guidelines for effectively communicating veg-fed meat's appeal to customers.

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Join Eagle Product Inspection experts as they discuss the benefits of x-ray inspection machines for the meat and poultry industries, and the latest on detection technology. Retailers are focusing on specific x-ray requirements as part of a manufacturer’s food safety program. In this session we will discuss x-ray insertion at critical control points that will optimize detection and add additional quality assurance/control benefits. Inspection techniques for specific applications like chubs, chicken breasts, and pumped, bulk or pumped meat. Advancements in x-ray technology that will increase production efficiencies to help maximize yields, profits and cost savings.

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Can you imagine your finance team on an abacus or even calculator instead of using software? No! And yet most food and beverage operations have done just that to the bulk of their work force, leaving their much bigger production team with paper, Excel, or ancient software. Compared to labor or capital expenditure, digitizing your production floor is inexpensive and immensely impactful, paying off in months, not years. Learn how food-specific WMS and Production management reduces errors, frees up your most critical employees, and even helps with retention.

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Consumer demand for clean label products is at an all-time high, with many willing to pay a premium for more natural ingredients. By eliminating phosphates from meat products, manufacturers can meet customer demands by achieving clean label claims. Join FFP as they discuss clean label replacement for phosphates: VegStable® Plus. FFP’s all-natural, plant-based solution offers enhanced juiciness, flavor, and texture and improves yield allowing manufacturers to ditch the synthetic phosphates and maximize performance in clean label meats.

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As the worldwide demand for meat and poultry products continues to increase, it is paramount that food formulators explore best practices to assist with keeping costs down and food waste to a minimum. This webinar will focus on the state of the industry, trends and challenges, as well as ingredient and processing innovations to increase protein quality and processing efficiencies. Join Kemin Food Technologies and JBT Corporation as they share the latest clean label ingredient solutions and processing innovations that will enhance protein applications and increase meat throughput.

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From inbound inspections to utilizing data to predict pest pressures, join the pest experts at IFC as they disclose their 5 top strategies to pest prevention and what you can start doing now to support your facility. This webinar with IFC will cover:

• What’s drawing pests into your facility
• What prevention tools you have available to you right now
• Recommendations the IFC team makes with pest prevention top of mind

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Pumps and Water solutions are critical to the protein industry and are used daily to ensure high-pressure, efficiency, and cleanliness. However, many facilities and operations managers are confronted with increased maintenance expenses, downtime, and life cycle costs associated with these systems. With advances in pumping technology, protein processors can change the status quo for industrial applications. Learn about how more reliable, cost-effective, and energy-efficient solutions are being designed to improve plant operation for today’s protein manufacturers.

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Manufacturing clean label, high quality proteins in an environment where raw material insecurity, labor shortages and increased logistical costs are common has lead to unprecedented challenges within the industry. Join Kemin as they discuss ways to increase product quality without negatively impacting formulation or manufacturing costs. Kemin offers clean-label yield enhancement solutions, as well as color, flavor and food safety ingredients to keep meat and poultry products safer, fresher, longer.

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Ingredient markets emerged from the unprecedented “year of the pandemic” with multi-year high prices for some commodities as stocks declined due in part to strong export demand, especially from China. As vaccines curb the coronavirus, the political climate in Washington changes and weather is an ever-present threat, businesses are facing more unknowns than ever and need all the input they can get to help make smart buying, selling and food manufacturing decisions. This 4-session webinar will include expert presentations on grains, shortening, sweeteners, transportation, consumer trends, energy, weather and the economic outlook. Read More

As more consumers look closely at ingredient labels and on-pack claims to understand what ingredients are in their food, it’s important to offer meat products with consumer-friendly ingredients in mind. This webinar will focus on the trends driving these changes, how consumers perceive different ingredients, and the formulating opportunities with functional clean label ingredients. Read More

Today, everyone is talking about plant-based protein. Yet, as consumers demand more tailored nutrition, it’s going to take more than just protein to win with consumers. Join this webinar to learn how to combine the benefits of plant-based protein with other in-demand nutrients for skin health, gut health, brain health, clean energy and recovery––and do it all without compromising on taste. Read More

The Dutch national association for the meat industry, COV, is aiming to get the word out on its high-quality product and is running a promotional campaign for European veal in North America. Veal production has a long tradition in Europe and The Netherlands is at its forefront, being the largest producer of veal in the world and the by far largest exporter. The Dutch veal industry is dedicated to quality, sustainability and animal welfare. Veal from Europe complies to the highest international standards in terms of food safety and quality. Dutch veal is an exceptional product closely tied with Europe’s quality culinary tradition. Join us to understand what makes Dutch Veal unique. Read More

The processed meat market— currently at 24 billion pounds annually in the U.S.— is growing, and 43% of consumers are looking for meat products with fewer additives. Learn how meat manufacturers can utilize Ingredion’s broad portfolio of clean label starches as phosphate alternatives in tumble-marinated and injected poultry to better appeal to these consumers. Our differentiated starch solutions deliver the appeal of clean and simple labels for your poultry without sacrificing performance. Read More

Presented by Temple Grandin, this webinar will include:

• Discussion of why technology combined with training are essential to improving animal welfare practices
• The evolution of traditional stunning equipment and the ABCs of maintaining today’s equipment; An overview of Controlled Atmosphere Stunning (CAS) including its benefits and applications across species
• Guidelines for monitoring and measuring animal handling and the role of training, traditional auditing and Remote Video Auditing.

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