Huisken Meat Company Receives “Excellent” Score on NSF- Cook & Thurber Audit

Sauk Rapids, MN, May 15, 2005 - Huisken Meat Company, a JNR Corporation company, is pleased to announce a recent “Excellent” score from an early May, 2005 third party audit conducted by NSF – Cook & Thurber. With over 60 years of experience, NSF-Cook & Thurber conduct independent evaluations to determine that manufacturers have appropriately designed systems that are being operated under continual control to assure product safety, quality, and consistency.

Huisken Meat Company scored in excess of 98.5% on a wide ranging evaluation of its management & quality policy; incoming material control; plant facility and in-process control; sanitation, housekeeping, equipment & maintenance; personal hygiene; food safety; and other areas.

"I am proud of our employees because they have earned this excellent rating through their dedication to maintaining the highest possible quality and safety standards" said Cliff Albertson, general manager and chief operating officer for Huisken Meat Company. "Our company has never lost the small-town values it was started with nearly 70 years ago in rural Minnesota. We feel a deep responsibility to our customers and ourselves to produce wholesome and delicious beef patties in a safe environment."

Since 1938, Huisken Meat Company, a JNR Corporation company, has worked to bring the highest quality meats to the dinner table. It produces high-quality frozen beef burgers for home consumers as Huisken and RG's brands, as well as store brand labels for some of the largest grocery distributors in the country.

Very few meat companies have achieved ISO Certification, making Huisken Meat Company one of the leaders in the industry. Whiteford Food Products, Inc., a sister company also owned by JNR Corporation, has been ISO Certified since 1996. Rochester Meat Company, another JNR Corporation company received ISO 9001:2000 Certification in April 2004.