US food giant Cargill has spent US$8m expanding packaging at its Fresno beef site and improving food-safety procedures at the facility.
The company said today (8 December) that it had spent $3.8m “renovating and expanding” some ground-beef packaging lines at the site in the Californian city.
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Cargill said it had installed new equipment to ensure the packaging lines “operate more effectively and efficiently to meet customer needs”.
The company has also spent $4.2m on installing a carcass wash that “closely resembles a carwash for cattle”, it said.
The system scrubs animal hides with spinning bristles and a bromine solution that kills bacteria at the start of the harvesting process.
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