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nationally. Bataska joins Swift from
Del Monte Foods, where he was vice
president of logistics.
The Occupational Safety and Health
Administration named Omaha Steaks'
96th Street Plant as a Merit Site in its
Voluntary Protection Program. Omaha
Steaks is the first meatpacker/processor in Nebraska and to receive the V.P.P.
Merit Site honor, which recognizes
worksites implementing exemplary
worker safety programs.

Pilgrim's Pride recently unveiled a new campus located
between Pittsburg and Mount
Pleasant, Texas, which will serve
as its world headquarters. The
main five-story building will
house 600 employees.

Perdue Farms Inc., Salisbury, Md., has
hired Julie DeYoung as vice president
of corporate communications. She will
oversee its communications and public
affairs department. DeYoung was most
recently senior director of corporate
communications and public affairs at
ConAgra Foods, Omaha, Neb.
Dr. Steven Ricke, a professor of poultry science at Texas A&M Univ., will
be the first person to hold the new
Donald "Buddy" Wray Chair in Food
Safety and director of the Center for
Food Safety in the Institute of Food
Science and Engineering at the Univ.
of Arkansas, Fayetteville. The chair
is supported by a $3 million endowment provided by matching gifts from
Tyson Foods and a fund created from
the Walton Family Charitable Support
Foundation's $300 million gift to the
university in 2002.
Swift & Co., Greeley, Colo., has appointed Mark Bataska as vice president of transportation. He will oversee
all transportation operations for Swift
& Co., including trucking, rail and
water, both domestically and inter-

John Reddington, vice president for
international trade at the American
Meat Institute, Washington, D.C., was
recently elected chairman of the Animal and Animal Products Agricultural
Technical Advisory Committee. The
appointment to the committee is for
two years.
Don Jackson, president of the poultry
division of Foster Farms, Livingston,
Calif., was recently installed as chairman of the National Chicken Council,
Washington, D.C. Mark Hickman,
of Peco Foods, Inc., Tuscaloosa, Ala.,
took over as vice chairman, and Mike
Welch, of Harrison Poultry, Bethlehem,
Ga., became secretary-treasurer. In addition, George Watts of Alexandria,
Va., was elected to another term as
president of N.C.C., a post he has held
since 1972.
The National Pork Producers Council, Urbandale, Iowa, has hired Ginger
Langemeier as its deputy director of
government relations and Faith Burns
as director of environmental policy.
Langemeier and Burns began their duties at the N.P.P.C. this past October.
Six officers were recently elected
to lead the American Meat Institute
through the next year. The announcement came during A.M.I.'s Annual
Business Meeting, held at A.M.I.'s International Meat, Poultry, & Seafood
Industry Convention and Exposition,
part of the Worldwide Food Expo '05.
Robert "Bo" Manly, Premium Stan-

dard Farms, was elected chairman.
Richard L. Bond, Tyson Foods, Inc.,
will serve as vice chair. David Miniat,
Ed Miniat, Inc., is the new treasurer.
Rod Brenneman, Seaboard Foods,
will serve as secretary. Bill Buckner, of Cargill, Inc., and Cargill Meat
Solutions Corp., becomes immediate
past chairman. Patrick Boyle was reelected by the A.M.I. membership to
serve his 17th year as its president
and C.E.O.
In addition, nine new leaders were
added to the A.M.I. board of directors. They include: Jeffery Ettinger,
president/ C.O.O., Hormel Foods Corp.;
Rick Fahle, president /C.E.O., Fairbank
Farms; Tom Hayes, business unit leader, pork, Cargill Meat Solutions; Francois Leger, president, FPL Foods LLC;
Russ Martin, president, F.R. Drake
Co.; Michel McCain, president/C.E.O.,
Maple Leaf Foods Inc.; Jim Ransom,
president, Curwood, Inc.; Eldon Roth,
president, BPI, Inc.; and John Stewart,
president/C.E.O., Creekstone Farms
Premium Beef, LLC.
The U.S. Meat Export Federation,
Denver, recently elected John Bellinger, the San Antonio-based head
of Agri-West International, Inc.,
as its chairman for fiscal 2005-06.
U.S.M.E.F. also elected Dennis Erpelding with Elanco as chairmanelect, Dan Halstrom with Swift & Co.
as vice chairman, and Glen Keppy, a
Davenport, Iowa-based pork producer,
as secretary-treasurer.
F.B. Purnell Sausage Co., Inc., Simpsonville, Ky., has promoted Hugh
Breeden to national retail sales manager. He replaces Bob Sutherland
who has retired.
David Mosner, Inc., Bronx, N.Y.,
has received a Certified Humane
designation through an independent
audit by Humane Farm Animal Care.
The veal producer/packer met all the
requirements for humane treatment
of young cattle to be issued the science-based certification.

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