I stayed over at Tamara Ohs house last night so that I didn't have to get up so early for the Food Industry trip. We left at 7 a.m. from Lawson Ice Arena.
Our first stop was in Fremont at the Gerber Baby Food. The presenters did an excellent job at covering the various product lines of the company. It has been around since 1928. The idea for strained foods for a baby came from the busy mother, Dorothy Gerber. The 5 original products were peas, spinach, carrots, prunes, and vegetable soup. They had companies in other countries such as Lima, Peru. 'Ensure' had been on the market for 10 years. This was one of their competitors.
The 2nd stop was to the Bil Mar Food plant in Holland, Michigan. The original plant was almost completely burned in 1984. There were 3 phases in its production: Phase 1 (Slaughter), Phase 2 (Processing turkey and deli items), and Phase 3 (sliced for environmental room/beef or pork.
The first shift was 10-3 p.m. with on sight sanitation. We had to wear white coats, slippers over our shoes and hair nets. This factory was so gross. We saw the feathers being taken off the chickens. We saw all of the different parts being chopped off. There were alot of workers at this plant. About 1.2 million hot dogs were made per day. After being slaughtered, they must get to 40 degrees by 6 hours. Sara Lee owned this company, as well as 'Coach' purses. We stayed at the Holiday Inn on 28th St. near Woodland Mall.
I went shopping with Sieuw Ping and Suk Kien at the Woodland Mall.
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