Category Archives: Postville, IA

Agri Star Meat And Poultry LLC Recalls Beef Pastrami Products

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Agri Star Meat and Poultry LLC, a Postville, Iowa establishment, is recalling approximately 3,592 pounds of ready-to-eat beef pastrami products due to processing deviations that may have led to underprocessing of products and resulted in inadequate curing, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service announced Thursday. The RTE beef pastrami items were produced on April 3 and April 4, 2018.

Trump and the Meat Tycoon: Backstory to a Commutation

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After he served 8 years of a 27-year sentence for money laundering, kosher meatpacking executive Sholom Rubashkin had his sentence commuted. On May 14, 2008, hundreds of officers from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement swooped down on Agriprocessors, the nation's largest kosher slaughterhouse in Postville, Iowa, with helicopters in the largest single-site raid in US history, arresting half of the eight-hundred-person workforce.