News Articles
Former Agriculture Secretaries Urge Congress to Pass TPA
A bipartisan group of former U.S. Secretaries of Agriculture, representing all administrations from Jimmy Carter to George W. Bush, issued an open letter urging Congress to pass Trade Promotion Authority (TPA), which is necessary to finalize and implement numerous trade...
News Item · North American Meat Institute · Mar 4, 2015
Meat and Poultry Remain Strong at Retail, Study Reveals
NAMI and the Food Marketing Institute (FMI) published the 10th annual Power of Meat study, which reveals that meat and poultry products remain among the top choices for shoppers at retail. The study, which
examines consumer perceptions, attitudes and behaviors regarding...
News Item · North American Meat Institute · Mar 4, 2015
IFSAC Develops New Model for Attributing Foodborne Illness
The Interagency Food Safety Analytics Collaboration (IFSAC), a partnership between USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service, FDA and the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention, released a report detailing a new method for analyzing outbreak data to determine the most...
News Item · North American Meat Institute · Mar 4, 2015
Press Releases
New Video Addresses Myth That BSE is a Common Threat to Human and Animal Health
Washington, DC - Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) is a major concern for beef producers around the world and generates headlines on the rare occasions it is found,
but the newest Meat MythCrusher video
rebuts the claim that it is a ‘common’ threat to human and animal...
Press Release · Mar 2, 2015
Annual Meat Conference Exhibitors Donate More Than 5,000 Pounds of Meat and Poultry Products to Nashville Food Project
2015 Conference Breaks Attendance Record
Washington, DC – Exhibitors at the Annual Meat Conference (AMC), hosted by the
North American Meat Institute Foundation (NAMIF) and the Food Marketing Institute (FMI) this week in Nashville, Tennessee, donated 5,100 pounds of meat...
Press Release · Feb 27, 2015
Power of Meat Remains Strong at Retail
Nashville, TN— Meat and poultry products remain among the top choices for shoppers at retail, but the tenth annual Power of Meat study published by the Food Marketing Institute (FMI) and North American Meat Institute (NAMI) highlights several trends in the way consumers are changing their purchasing behavior...
Press Release · Feb 24, 2015