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Water-saving actions at Ingham’s Tahmoor
No need to learn
how to de-bone
your chicken
THE Australian Chicken Meat Fed- eration is happy to report that chicken is back on shelves!
supply are stable for now, the ACMF is closely monitoring the situation given its unpredictable nature.
Supply is back up to nearly 90 percent of pre-Omicron levels.
There are still issues supplying a small number of products, but industry is proud to have been able to bring the majority of Australia’s favourite chicken meat prod- ucts back to the din- ner table.
Primarily whole chickens were avail- able throughout January, but now a much larger range of chicken products are becoming available, with COVID-related staff absenteeism having dropped back to 10-20 percent, af- terapeakofupto50 percent in January.
For those keen, you can still learn to debone a chicken here – facts.chicken. org.au/how-to-bone- and-prepare-a-chick- en/
While staffing and
THE Ingham’s team at the Tahmoor turkey pri- mary processing facil- ity in NSW has reduced the site’s water usage by 26 percent in only five months – saving 24,000 kilolitres of potable water – the equivalent of nine Olympic-sized swimming pools!
they could do the right thing for the environment by saving water.
ing water and reducing Ingham’s environmen- tal footprint in the local community.
Well done to Adam Mc- Namara, Carolynn Wade and the Tahmoor lead- ership team for showing
what great progress can be made by working to- gether towards a more sustainable planet.
GLOBAL animal Hall said the company
health company Elan- co has announced the appointment of Lynell Fisher as its new food safety and premix tech- nical sales manager.
was delighted to wel- come Lynell to the com- pany.
Based at Allenview in southeast Queensland, Lynell will represent Elanco products and services to major poul- try companies, premix suppliers, feed mills and product merchants throughout Australia and New Zealand.
“Lynell has forged a career in livestock nutri- tion and has extensive experience in preparing feed rations for rumi- nant and monogastric species, food safety and quality assurance pro- grams, occupational health and safety, and staff development,” Mr Hall said.
Her portfolio includes the benchmark feed ad- ditives Correlink, Max- iban, Monteban, Rumen- sin, Surmax and Tylan.
“Starting her nutrition- al career with Rhône- Poulenc Animal Nutri- tion, Lynell served as a technical manager with BEC Feed Solutions and Riverina Australia and then as a senior nutri- tionist with Ridley Ag- riproducts and Westons Animal Nutrition.
Working closely with Elanco’s sales, market- ing, technical and cus- tomer services teams, Lynell will be responsi- ble for cultivating close customer relationships, achieving strategic ac- count objectives and supply management.
“Lynell is also well- versed in animal care, having spent a decade as a qualified veterinary nurse before graduat- ing with a Bachelor of Applied Science degree from Charles Sturt Uni- versity in 1995.”
Elanco national sales manager north Brett
When plant manager Carolynn Wade started with the team in 2021, she commenced bringing the leadership team together – comprising engineer- ing, production, safety and quality – to discuss ideas to improve the site.
The reduction in wa- ter usage has also led to less wastewater on site – freeing up the waste- water storage dams and adding the further benefit of less discharge to the local council’s wastewa- ter treatment system by more than 200 kilolitres per day.
The Ingham’s Tahmoor turkey primary processing facility in NSW has reduced the site’s water usage by 26 percent in only five months.
Top of the list was how
The team is both sav-
The team identified a range of initiatives to re- duce water usage across the site.
The site processes ap- proximately 27,000 tur- keys per week, with water being an essential part of the process to produce quality products includ- ing portioned, minced, marinated and whole tur- key birds.
This included preventa- tive and reactive main- tenance to resolve water leakages, working with the cleaning contractors to update their clean- ing practices to use less water, and reducing the water volume in the spin chiller tanks by 14,000 litres per processing day.
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New food safety and
premix technical sales
manager for Elanco
Lynell Fisher joins Elanco as the new food safety and premix technical sales manager.
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W hen she’s not at work, Lynell enjoys competing in working sheepdog trials, horse riding and breeding reg- istered cattle.
Elanco is a global lead- er in the research, de- velopment and commer- cialisation of products that improve the health and well-being of food and companion animals.
Founded in 1954, the company operates in 90 countries and has a global turnover of $4.7 billion.