The Food Product and Safety Lab was one of only five USDA inspected meat processing facilities in the state.
Ellice Lueders Tucson is a cow town. A sign says as much, advertising a boot store on the side of Interstate 10.
People are also reading… Though the farm has been active for over a century, in recent years it has been the center of controversies ranging from community activists fighting for its historical status designation to the suspension of their most recent manager due to animal welfare violations to an embezzlement scheme by the professor running the student-led butcher shop.
Ranchers faced different consequences. The lab was shutting down for their use in only two weeks. They would have to find other places to process the animals they had scheduled. Ranchers had to scramble: meat processing facilities were in high demand and the last-minute notice affected ranchers’ bottom lines.
The university has declined to comment on why ranchers and workers were notified of the Food Product and Safety Lab’s closure on such short notice. The only information they provided was a link to an official timeline, which states that design did not begin until several months after the lab closed and that construction will not begin until at least a year after the lab closed.
Listen now and subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | RSS Feed | Omny Studio Judy’s bottom line is now dependent on the cost of shipping her beef out of state to be processed. For the sake of her business, she was hoping the UA would reopen by this summer: the university’s current timeline has the plant reopening in September 2024.
“I quit depending on them back in 2018,” he said. Rodney sought other facilities for his processing work after he lost a monthly contract with Bisbee Breakfast Club for 5,000 pounds of pork because FPSL couldn’t keep up with his demand.“I supply kidneys to a place that makes kidney dialysis machines up in Phoenix, supply pancreases and stuff all over the state. Hospitals, Mayo Clinic,” Rodney said — until the Food Product and Safety Lab closed in January.
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