Cargill Meat Solutions Beardstown, Illinois. In 2001, Excel purchased Emmpak Foods, a maker of cooked meats, deli meats, frozen hamburger patties and case-ready ground beef. In 2004, the division's name was changed from Excel to Cargill Meat Solutions. In 2005, Cargill brought back the Excel name as a brand for the division's "everyday" meat product line. In July 2015, Cargill announced it was selling its U.S. pork processing business to JBS USA for $1.45 billion. In October 2007, Cargill recalled nearly 845,000 pounds of ground beef after an outbreak of occurred in North Carolina. In October 2002, the Emmpak meat packing plant recalled
Mosa Meat Mosa Meat Mosa Meat is a Dutch food technology company, headquartered in Maastricht (the Netherlands) creating production methods for cultured meat. It was founded in October 2015, by Mark Post and Peter Verstrate. Post is a Professor of Vascular Physiology at Maastricht University and serves as Chief Scientific Officer of Mosa Meat. Verstrate is CEO at Mosa Meat and has a background in the processed meat industry, holding different positions at Sara Lee Corporation, Ahold, Smithfield Foods, Campofrío Food Group, Jack Links, and Hulshof Protein Technologies. Post and Verstrate have developed the world's first cultured meat hamburger in 2013, which