Listeria taint cited in firm’s meat recall
A Kansas company is recalling about 22,800 pounds of chicken, ham and beef products that were possibly contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service said Wednesday.
The products from Reser’s Fine Foods include: 5-pound packages of Cobble Street Market Chicken Salad, Cross Valley Farms Chicken Salad or Ham Salad; 5-pound packages of Reser’s Fine Foods White Meat Chicken Salad with Cranberries and Pecans, Chicken Salad, Ham Salad or Ham Salad Supreme;
3-pound packages of Millers Bar-B-Que Beans with Beef; 12-ounce packages of Reser’s Fine Foods White Meat Chicken Salad;
5-pound packages of Classic Chicken Salad; 12-ounce packages of Chef Solutions Cranberry Pecan White Meat Chicken Salad; and 3-pound Stonemill Kitchens Loaded Potato Salad with Bacon.
The products were sold in stores in 27 states including Arkansas, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Oklahoma.
- Jessica Seaman
Natural-gas fueling station to hold gala
Southwestern Energy Co. will have a grand opening for its new compressed natural gas fueling station today in Conway.
The event will be held at the station at 2125 Sanders Road from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Southwestern Energy Co. President and Chief Executive Officer Steve Mueller, Bill Way, the company’s chief operating officer, Conway Mayor Tab Townsell and state Sen. Jason Rapert, R-Bigelow, are attending, according to the news release.
This is Southwestern’s second natural gas station in the state. The company opened its first station in Damascus in 2011.
- Jessica Seaman
Index gains 0.77 as broader market falls
The Arkansas Index, a price-weighted index that tracks the largest public companies based in the state, was up 0.77 to 309.64 Wednesday.
“U.S. stocks moved lower on Wednesday after a round of mixed earnings reports and new liquidity concerns in China,” said John Blackwell, senior vice president and managing director of equity trading at Stephens Inc. in Little Rock. “The Arkansas Index moved higher as nine stocks advanced and eight declined.”
Shares of America’s Car-Mart gained 1.8 percent in slow trading.
P.A.M. Transportation Services shares fell 2.1 percent on double its average volume.
Three stocks reached 52-week highs: Arkansas Best, Bank of the Ozarks and USA Truck.
Volume for the index was 18.3 million shares.
The index was developed by Bloomberg News and the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette with a base value of 100 as of Dec. 30, 1997.
Business, Pages 27 on 10/24/2013