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Meattrack.com is affiliated with a variety of organizations related to the meat and poultry industry.  These organizations fall under three different categories:

SPONSORING ORGANIZATIONS
Meattrack.com came into being through the combined effort and financial support of the Cattlemen’s Beef Board (CBB) and National Cattleman’s Beef Association (NCBA), National Pork Board (NPB) and American Lamb Board (ALB). These organizations represent the interests of the beef, pork, and lamb industry. The mission of these organizations is to increase consumer demand for their products. To accomplish this, they provide education and training throughout all segments of their industry promoting competitiveness and profitability.

• The National Cattleman’s Beef Association is the trade association representing the beef industry promoting research and other industry-related activities. The Cattlemen’s Beef Board and NCBA represent America’s one million cattle farmers and ranchers with over 28,000 individual members and represents more than 230,000 breeders, producers, and feeders.
• The National Pork Board is a 15-member board consisting of producers or importers. They are nominated by industry delegates and approved by the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture. The National Pork Board represents US Pork producers.
• The American Lamb Board is a 13-member board that receives its appointments from the Secretary of Agriculture; their work is overseen by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The American Lamb Board represents all segments of the lamb industry.

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STANDARDS ORGANIZATIONS

Confusion is inevitable when you have different standards even if some of them are compatible. Going into the future and globalization, all aspects of the industry must be drawn together under a common umbrella of standardization. Meattrack.com seeks to develop and maintain consistent standards throughout all segments of the industry. To bring this about, MeatTrack.com participates with three standards organizations:

• mpMXL is a standards organization made up of companies representing all segments of the meat and poultry industries. mpXML’s objective is to develop and promote open standards for exchanging business information throughout all segments of the supply chain.
• GS1 is a global standards organization responsible for the development and maintenance of the GS1 system. The GS1 system is a suite of standards that enable companies  to efficiently share business information with trading partners and to improve internal business processes, driving cost savings into business built on globally unique number assignments for bar codes.
• Industry-wide Cooperative Meat Identification Standards Committee (ICMISC) is a consortium of retailers, suppliers, government agencies, and industry professionals who oversaw the development and implementation of the URMIS system. ICMISC is also the watch group that maintains the integrity and consistency of the system.

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PARTICIPATING ORGANIZATIONS
The National Chicken Council (NCC) and The National Turkey Federation (NTF) represent the chicken and turkey industries.  They advocate legislative and regulatory policies in Washington D.C. for their industries and promote increasing consumer demand through marketing and education.

MEATTRACK.COM WEBMASTER
Meat Solutions provides the meat and poultry industry with the web-based VMMEAT system combining standards, technology, and experience to effectively track variable measure meat products.

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