The National Chicken Council (NCC) updated its guidelines for animal care and welfare at the beginning of the new year.

A study published in the December issue of the journal Nature Sustainability examined what types of food production have the greatest environmental impacts.

Poultry processor Butterball LLC recently confirmed that it hired Brett Worlow as its new general counsel.

Joanne Knight has been named acting chief financial officer of Cargill. She will fill the role of Jamie Miller, who will step down on Jan. 13 to take an opportunity outside of Cargill, the company said.

Fire department personnel and rescue workers were called to Smithfield Foods’ pork processing plant in Tar Heel at approximately 1 a.m. on Jan. 6, responding to reports of an ammonia leak.

Impossible Foods announced the hiring of Sherene Jagla as its first chief demand officer.

After decades of being in the business of providing seafood to Denver and the Rocky Mountains, Seattle Fish Co. recently took on a new project to broaden its meat portfolio.

The Meat Science and Animal Biologics Discovery (MSABD) program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s College of Agricultural and Life Sciences will host a Meat Snacks Short Course from Feb. 7-9.

Regulatory experts from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and China National Center for Food Safety Risk Assessment (CFSA) met for the first time to discuss the regulatory approval process for cultivated meat.

The report focuses on key areas for producers and retailers in the food space.