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Wolverine Packing Co.

Detroit meat processor and distributor. Costco names the company as a commercial supplier for the pictured Silver Fern Farms chuck roll; the actual packing and slaughter plants remain unassigned.

Location: Wolverine Packing Co. is a Detroit meat processor and distributor with its company office at 2535 Rivard. It is separate from Wolverine Bison and similarly named tannery or export businesses.
Practices: The company offers boxed-beef distribution, cutting, grinding, custom marination and cold storage. These are capabilities; they do not establish the recipe or processing of every supplied cut.
About: The October 2026 FSIS directory lists five Detroit sites. M2574 includes slaughter; A, B, C and D sites list processing. A company supplier name does not identify which site handled a package.
Sourcing: Costco’s item 41207 catalog names Wolverine Packing as supplier while its chuck-roll artwork shows Silver Fern Farms. This is a commercial supplier attribution, not a farm, slaughter or repacking allocation.
About: CDC’s final June 2014 report linked Wolverine ground beef to 12 illnesses and seven hospitalizations. About 1.8 million pounds from EST.2574B were recalled; the outbreak appeared over. This is historical ground-beef scope, not a current whole-cut recall.
About: A separate 2024 EST.2574B ground-beef recall covered 167,277 pounds. FSIS records list closure in January 2025; closure is recall administration, not proof that every current product or process is hazard-free.
About: An OSHA record describes a January 2022 bandsaw fingertip injury at Rivard. The case closed in August 2023 with a formal settlement and a reported $3,780 penalty. Payment and present guarding were not verified; it is not a food-contamination finding.