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Mega Ball Sales Top $1 Million In 2003

Mega Ball, the U.S. beef meatball introduced by USMEF in January 2000, had more than $1 million worth of sales in the first seven months of 2003. Made from chuck flap and top blade muscle bound together with wheat gluten, the precooked Mega Ball used in popular and traditional Chinese hot pot dishes and soup had a sales volume of 209.6 metric tons from Jan.-July, 2003. It’s sold and labeled as a healthy and safe item made entirely out of U.S. beef. Mega Ball’s success has led to greater interest in such other U.S.beef products as heel muscle, boneless chuck short rib, bone-in short ribs, rib fingers, shank, top blade muscle, short plate and variety meats such as tendon and tripe. For more information, read the Mega Ball news release online.

The USMEF Web site, www.usmef.org, went through some major changes over the Labor Day weekend — most of them behind the scenes. The site’s new operating system is less expensive that the old one, serves up pages more quickly and is much easier for us to manage and for members to work with.

If you bookmarked www.usmef.org or set it as your home page you may have experienced delays or even been rewarded with an error message. Because the new system labels pages differently than the old one, the best thing to do is to log on to the USMEF Web site and then add a new bookmark by letting the new USMEF Web address overwrite the old one. To make the new www.usmef.org your home page, go to Tools -> Internet Options; then, on the “General” tab under “Home Page” click the “Use Current” button.

Taiwan

Mega Ball Sales Top $1 Million In 2003

Mega Ball, the U.S. beef meatball introduced by USMEF in January 2000, had more than $1 million worth of sales in the first seven months of 2003. Made from chuck flap and top blade muscle bound together with wheat gluten, the precooked Mega Ball used in popular and traditional Chinese hot pot dishes and soup had a sales volume of 209.6 metric tons from Jan.-July, 2003. It’s sold and labeled as a healthy and safe item made entirely out of U.S. beef. Mega Ball’s success has led to greater interest in such other U.S.beef products as heel muscle, boneless chuck short rib, bone-in short ribs, rib fingers, shank, top blade muscle, short plate and variety meats such as tendon and tripe. For more information, read the Mega Ball news release online.

The USMEF Web site, www.usmef.org, went through some major changes over the Labor Day weekend — most of them behind the scenes. The site’s new operating system is less expensive that the old one, serves up pages more quickly and is much easier for us to manage and for members to work with.

If you bookmarked www.usmef.org or set it as your home page you may have experienced delays or even been rewarded with an error message. Because the new system labels pages differently than the old one, the best thing to do is to log on to the USMEF Web site and then add a new bookmark by letting the new USMEF Web address overwrite the old one. To make the new www.usmef.org your home page, go to Tools -> Internet Options; then, on the “General” tab under “Home Page” click the “Use Current” button.