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Cargill Dodge City, EST. 86K

Cargill’s Dodge City, Kansas beef slaughter/processing plant; published EST. 86K labels identify processing, not the cattle farm.

Location

FSIS identifies M86K as Cargill’s Dodge City, Kansas meat slaughter and processing facility. East Trail Street and Fort Dodge Road appear in different retained documents.

Practices

The January 2026 harvest programme applies a PAA-based antimicrobial to subprimals before packaging. Red-meat offal removed before thermal pasteurization has a separate unnamed acid treatment.

Practices

Ground-component sampling and test-and-hold statements do not establish results for every intact heart, bone or retail organ package.

Certifications

The April 14, 2026 welfare summary passed with 360/370 points, including 30/40 for vocalization. These are audit-category points, not all-animal outcome rates.

Certifications

The published BRCGS certificate records an announced April 14–16, 2026 audit, AA grade and June 17, 2027 printed expiry. Rendering, blood drying and traded goods are excluded.

About

DOL’s February 17, 2023 investigation identified 26 minors employed by sanitation contractor PSSI at this site and $393,588 assessed against PSSI for the site. This is contractor worker history, not a meat-contamination finding.

About

KDHE’s March 2022 letter found wastewater noncompliance; operator letters reported lagoon incidents in 2026. September 2026 agency acceptance concerned compaction tests, not completed relining or whole-site clearance.

Sourcing

The company’s multi-country cattle/raw-material statement and a U.S. EST do not allocate birth, raising or finishing country to an individual package.

Researched October 14, 2026