Product specifications were not reviewed since established in 1962.
For example, the bone-in loin product mapped during the study, needed to be trimmed at the canteen.
Not only the bone added no value to the customer but created unnecessary economic and environmental waste, too. Moreover, there was a small value to the bone at the processor.
And...Pork chops were reassembled into the shape of a loin at the processor.
Historically, there were reasons for reforming,including preserving meat for longer periods of storage.
This was no more necessary from the consumer point of view.
There was a 0.5 per cent saving on consumer price by eliminating the reassembly process