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TYSON BACON

facility; about 95 percent of which are supplied by Tyson pork plants. Team members expert in working on highly automated equipment assist in a variety of processes, including flattening bellies, skinning, injecting, smoking (natural wood and liquid), slicing, cooking, packaging and boxing packaged products. Nothing goes to waste. After RTE bacon is processed, less-desirable bacon pieces are transferred to the toppings line where it is chopped up for toppings. “We use 100 percent of our byproducts,” says Mike Narak, senior industrial engineer and a 23-year Omaha bacon complex veteran. His primary responsibilities include analyzing data and realizing plant operations improvements. State-of-the-art-technology used at the facility includes eight large Ferrite Microwave Technologies microwave oven lines that cook ready-toeat sliced bacon for foodservice and retail consumption, as well as pizza toppings that are sold to foodservice

companies globally, Chrisman says. Products are tracked throughout the Omaha complex by a computerized weigh-scale system, Rhubart adds. Weigh scales scan product codes on each trolley throughout the plant at various processing stages. This allows traceback to the vendor or supplier of the raw material – while allowing better control of weights and yield deviations moving forward.

Food-safety champion
Maintaining and enhancing food safety is a plant-wide priority. Launched in 1999, the Tyson Sentinel Site program is a continuous verification of the hazard analysis regarding the potential for post-processing contamination of RTE products with Listeria monocytogenes (Lm). It represents an ongoing assessment of the HACCP plan and addresses the conclusion that post-processing contamination of RTE products with Lm is not a hazard likely to occur. Tyson executives say this conclusion is justified by the data the company

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