Consumer

Retailers, butcher shops, farmers markets, foodservice outlets, and e-commerce businesses sell meat cuts directly to the consumer. The consumer should be able to recognize and identify the cut by the correct name, so they can make shopping comparisons. Supermarkets, grocery stores, and price clubs provide meat cut names on the self-service case package label and in advertising circulars. The local butcher shop and farmers market place an insert tag on the display tray with the cut name. Restaurants, dinners, and hotels use menus to describe the meat cut name. Regardless of the consumer segment and name inscription method, meat cut names should be accurate and based on industry standards. MeatTrack.com is the meat industry's central location for meat cut name and meat cut identification standards.

MeatTrack.com is the home for the Uniform Retail Meat Identity Standards (URMIS). URMIS is the long-established industry standard for meat cut names. The Meattrack.com URMIS section has easy to use applications with complete lists of all the approved beef, pork, lamb and veal cut names. Supermarkets, grocery stores, price clubs, butcher shops, and farmers markets can download the lists to use in scale systems, insert tags, on signage, and for consumer marketing -

Consumers hear about meat cuts on cooking shows, see cut names in recipes, and read cut names in publications and online newsfeeds. These sources do not always use the approved name. Using unapproved meat cut names causes confusion with consumers. URMIS is a consumer-friendly Common Name platform developed to help reduce consumer confusion and give the industry a standard for naming and labeling meat cuts. Over many decades there are hundreds of unapproved names given to meat cuts ranging from fanciful names developed for marketing to regional names used in certain geographical areas of the country. Many popular cooking methods have been used for cut names because of the appealing terms used in the receipt.

How do you know if a cut name is an approved name? MeatTrack.com has a complete section with beef, pork, lamb, and veal unapproved names cross-referenced to the correct approved URMIS Common Name - check it out here!

MeatTrack.com has a complete section dedicated to the Institutional Meat Purchase Specification (IMPS) that can be used in the foodservice and e-commerce segments. The specifications provide portion-cut weight standards, thickness, shape and trim requirements for beef, pork, lamb, and veal products. IMPS also provides the URMIS Common Names used for labeling fresh meat cut. The Meattrack.com IMPS section has easy to use applications with complete lists of all the IMPS items -
The Retailer menu on MeatTrack.com was developed for supermarkets, grocery stores, and price clubs. The menu provides product identification guidelines, tracking standards, and conversion methods for all types of retailers. Check out the
All the consumer facing segments should have a good understanding of labeling requirements for meat products. MeatTrack.com has a complete menu option designated to meat naming guidance and labeling meat products. Check out the

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