Contents Meat&Poultry’s digital edition is available at www.MeatPoultry.com February 2013 74 VOLUME 59 NUMBER 2 ON THE COVER: Kansas City’s Local Pig (Photos by Sally Morrow) 24 64 08 COMMENTARY Sage advice 10 BUSINESS NOTES 14 WASHINGTON HACCP visions 60 SMALL BUSINESS Harger’s Meats 64 INGREDIENTS Managing sodium 68 CEO SERIES Allen Brothers’ Todd Hatoff SAUSAGE REPORT 16 LOCAL PIG Sausage with an attitude 24 SAUSAGE TRENDS Consumption by the numbers 28 CHICKEN SAUSAGE Soaring to new heights MEAT PROCESSING OPS & ENGINEERING 37 JTM FOOD GROUP Institutional success 16 4 • Meat&Poultry • February 2013 • www.MeatPoultry.com 74 FOOD SAFETY 48 PACKAGING 78 LABOR Bigger, better hot dogs 80 NEW PRODUCTS 54 SANITATION TIPS Lockout-tagout 82 NAMES IN THE NEWS 84 CLASSIFIED ADS 89 AD INDEX 90 THE INSIDERhttp://www.MeatPoultry.com http://http:// http://www.MeatPoultry.com