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No. 1 – March 2011<br />
Product tasting<br />
This month, <strong>Smithfield</strong> Prod launched<br />
some new recipes: 11 assortments of<br />
sausages and 7 assortments of highly<br />
seasoned forcemeat balls.<br />
„ With this 3.5 milion USD <strong>Smithfield</strong><br />
Prod investment, <strong>the</strong> pork achieves <strong>the</strong><br />
optimum parameters so as to be safely kept and<br />
subsequently consumed.“<br />
<strong>Smithfield</strong> Prod<br />
invested 3.5 mil. USD<br />
in technological upgrade<br />
<strong>Smithfield</strong> Prod has completed <strong>the</strong><br />
technological upgrade works in<br />
<strong>the</strong> rapid refrigeration area of pork<br />
carcasses resulted from <strong>the</strong> slaughtering<br />
process. The investment<br />
amounted to USD 3.5 million, <strong>the</strong><br />
new refrigeration area covering 755<br />
m2. For almost 4 months, 7 contracting<br />
companies have been involved<br />
in this project.<br />
Rapid refrigeration is a refrigeration<br />
method for foods, pork in<br />
this case, at a low temperature, safe<br />
in terms of preventing bacterial proliferation.<br />
With this investment, by transiting<br />
<strong>the</strong> carcasses in tunnels with temperatures<br />
bet<strong>we</strong>en -18 and –24 °C, for 90<br />
minutes, <strong>the</strong> pork achieves <strong>the</strong> optimum<br />
parameters so as to be safely<br />
kept and subsequently consumed.<br />
Rapid cooling of pork carcasses<br />
can also be useful to processors as an<br />
additional method to control <strong>the</strong> microbial<br />
proliferation and, implicitly,<br />
<strong>the</strong> increase of food safety as regards<br />
basic pork products.<br />
<strong>Smithfield</strong> Prod is <strong>the</strong> largest slaughterhouse<br />
in Romania, with a processing<br />
capacity of 600 heads per hour, being<br />
located on <strong>the</strong> former COMTIM<br />
premises. <strong>Smithfield</strong> Prod values are<br />
n<br />
FEBRUARy RECIPE:<br />
COMTIM chop in <strong>the</strong> oven<br />
• 2 pieces of COMTIM pork<br />
chop<br />
• 300g bacon<br />
• 150g cheese<br />
• 2 tomatoes,<br />
• 1l milk<br />
• salt, pepper, butter<br />
NeWS<br />
This month, <strong>Smithfield</strong> Prod launched<br />
some new recipes: 11 assortments<br />
of sausages and 7 assortments of highly<br />
seasoned forcemeat balls.<br />
The current investment adds up to more than<br />
USD 67 million, amounts allocated by <strong>Smithfield</strong> Prod<br />
over <strong>the</strong> last 5 years only for <strong>the</strong> modernizing<br />
of <strong>the</strong> production capacities of former COMTiM.<br />
food safety, responsibility towards <strong>the</strong><br />
environment, understanding of <strong>the</strong> local<br />
specificity and support for <strong>the</strong> local<br />
communities where it operates, continuous<br />
development of <strong>the</strong> technologies<br />
used and creation of a pleasant<br />
working environment for <strong>the</strong> employees.<br />
<strong>Smithfield</strong> Prod is ISO 14001:2004<br />
Environmental Management system<br />
and ISO 22000: 2005 Food Safety Management<br />
system certified.<br />
The chops are kept in milk for one hour for tenderness,<br />
dried, cut, coated with butter on <strong>the</strong> inside,<br />
<strong>the</strong>n salt and pepper are added according<br />
to taste. Sliced bacon is put on <strong>the</strong> inside, as <strong>we</strong>ll<br />
as sliced cheese, a slice of tomato and a slice of<br />
bell pepper. Salt and pepper is added according<br />
to taste. Cook in <strong>the</strong> oven for 45-50 min. Serve<br />
warm with rice and vegetables and mushrooms.<br />
Contest of recipes A winner will be chosen every month, and <strong>the</strong><br />
We are launching a contest<br />
of recipes for those of you<br />
winning recipe will be posted on <strong>the</strong> Intranet<br />
and in <strong>the</strong> next issue of <strong>the</strong> newsletter.<br />
who want to share<br />
<strong>the</strong> pleasure of cooking<br />
fresh pork.<br />
PLEaSE SEND YOUR RECIPES aT:<br />
retete@smithfieldferme.ro<br />
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