Here are a set of blueprints for a mobile poultry processing unit (MPPU) built to operate under “equal to” state inspection in Vermont. The MPPU was built by the Vermont Agency of Agriculture, with funding from the Vermont Legislature and the Castanea Foundation, in 2008. It was leased by a small poultry processor for several years, then sold to a farm […]
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A Niche Meat Processor Assistance Network webinar, presented in collaboration with USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service. Date: February 4, 2014 Duration: 1 hour The Cooperative Interstate Shipment Program, authorized by the 2008 Farm Bill and launched by USDA-FSIS in 2012, allows state-inspected meats from qualifying plants to be shipped across state lines. The goal of the program
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Cost Analysis: Are You Making Money? A Niche Meat Processor Assistance Network webinar Date: March 19, 2014 Duration: 1 hour All NMPAN webinars are free and open to the public. Overview Many meat processors watch their checkbook balances and hope for the best. Some wade through P&L statements looking for answers and often come up short. Most
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A Niche Meat Processor Assistance Network webinar Date: May 29, 2014 Duration: 1 hour HACCP — Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point — has been around for decades as a food safety management system in many different industries. Starting in 2000, USDA required all inspected meat & poultry establishments to have a HACCP plan
<< Back Cost Analysis: Are you Making Money? How do you know if you’re making money? And what can you do if you’re not? Most small processors (like most small businesses) don’t fully understand why they are or aren’t making money and what they can do about it. Here, Arion Thiboumery, co-founder of the Niche
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What’s on this page? Upgrading or expanding an existing meat processing plant, building a new facility, buying equipment… it all costs money, and plenty of it. The information on this page will help you understand and navigate financing options that fit your processing plans. Q: What are my financing options? Which one is best
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What’s on this page? A basic understanding of microbiology can really help as you develop food safety and HACCP plans. This page has a few resources to get you started as well as some suggested anti-microbial interventions for small plants. What is microbiology? How do I get started? Learn Microbiology Basics NMPAN Webinars What are the
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Mobile Slaughter Units: Reports from the Field and Future Directions A Niche Meat Processor Assistance Network webinar Date: September 10, 2013 Duration: 90 minutes Overview Inspected mobile slaughter units for beef, bison, and other red meat species have been operating for more than a decade. How are they working out? What have we learned? And how
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A Niche Meat Processor Assistance Network webinar Overview N-60 sampling. Multi drug resistance. Pathogen v. adulterant. Non-0157 STECs. MDR Salmonella strains. Gram negative v. gram positive organisms. CFU, APC, PCR, PFGE. If you’re a meat processor, you pretty much have to know all this stuff. And if you work with a meat processor, you should
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A Niche Meat Processor Assistance Network webinar Learn more about NMPAN: www.nichemeatprocessing.org Webinar Description Mobile poultry processing units (MPPUs) have been around for more than ten years. On this webinar, we learned about five MPPUs on the ground around the country: Kentucky, Montana, Vermont, and two in Massachusetts. Each of our speakers covered the
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