The University of Arizona Food Products and Safety Laboratory offers various beef, lamb and pork products for sale to the general public. These include steaks, roasts and chops as well as deli meats, sausages and pet foods.
For available products, pre-ordering, current prices or more information call (520) 318-7021 or email fpsl@arizona.edu.
Meat Sales
Why Wildcat Country Market?
When you choose Wildcat Country Market, you support the next generation of University of Arizona students while enjoying the highest quality grass and grain-fed meats for you and your family.
Our steaks, roasts, chops, and other cuts are produced from livestock raised, processed, and packaged by Arizona students who work in our Food Products and Safety Lab, the only USDA inspected lab of its kind in the Southwest. You'll be delighted by the taste of our meats, which are carefully aged to be more tender than what you'd buy in the grocery store.
Support Arizona students
Every purchase from Wildcat Country Market supports Arizona students in some way. Students not only breed, raise, process, and package our meat products, they also run our store and are responsible for sales. Many of these students are studying majors in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and gaining hands-on experience that they'll use when they go on to work in a variety of fields including meat inspection, food safety, and agriculture.
Order From Wildcat Country Market
We offer a variety of products for sale in our store. You may call (520) 318-7021 or email FPSL@email.arizona.edu for current prices and to pre-order.
Quantities and options may vary. These include:
· Steaks
· Roasts
· Chops
· Deli meats
· Sausages
· Chorizo
· Bacon
· Jerky
· Poultry
· Eggs
· Fresh herbs
· Tilapia
· Pet foods
Shop in Our Store
Visit our store location at 4181 N. Campbell Avenue in Tucson, Arizona.
Shopping Hours:
· Fridays from 9:00am - 4:00pm
Fresh and frozen products, jerky, and sausage snacks are available for purchase. Beef and pork products are the most available throughout the year. Lamb, goat, fresh eggs, and cheeses are available in limited and occasional quantities. Their availability will be announced on our social media channels Facebook and Instagram. Follow us for specials.
Policies
Refund Policy
Thank you for your business! We want you to be fully satisfied with your purchases. Our staff are happy to assist you with questions.
- Meat and Food Products: To ensure we are providing the safest products to our customers, we are not able to accept returns or refunds on meat and food products.
- Safety, Food Labeling, and Testing Services: Lab services require significant upfront costs for materials and supplies. Refunds are not possible once a customer has agreed to services.
Unclaimed Meat 60-Day Policy
Meat left unclaimed or not picked up within 60 days from initial invoice date will have its ownership transferred to the University of Arizona’s ACBS Food Products & Safety Lab and the minimum processing fee or down payment will be forfeited and not refunded.
Customer Signing Policy
Customer must sign a Custom Slaughter Agreement (CSA) before or at the time of delivery of animals. Customer is defined as the owner of animal or any person legally authorized – in writing – to represent the owner. Delivery drivers are expressly not allowed to sign the CSA unless previously legally authorized to do so.
- Document
- Custom Slaughter Agreement
If you cannot make your scheduled appointment you will need to cancel at least one week before your drop off date via fpsl@arizona.edu (preferred) or call 520-318-7021. Two consecutive cancellations (or showing up with fewer animals than scheduled) may result in termination of further scheduled harvest dates.
County or State Fair customers can fax or scan and email a signed copy of the CSA to (520) 318-7019 or fpsl@arizona.edu.
At the time of meat pick up, customer is required to inspect and sign a completion packet to ensure customer is in full possession of their processed order.
A 5% late fee will be charged after initial contact per month on balance due. A check returned as a result of non-sufficient funds will be charged a fee of $25.00
Payment Policies
- Beef: A $500 minimum down payment will be charged at time of animal delivery.
Full payment is required for harvesting and handling fees if animal is left in half or quartered. - Pork: A $200 minimum down payment will be charged at time of animal delivery.
Full payment is required including if hog is left whole, half or scraped and scald. - Lamb: Full payment is required for lamb at time of animal drop off.
- Goat: Full payment is required for goat at time of animal drop off.
Offal cost will be added to invoice after weighting.
Outside Orders and Shipment
Customer is responsible to arrange transport of products to the customer’s desired destination. Once products are shipped from the Food Products and Safety Lab’s premises, we are not responsible for the condition of products upon arrival.
In the case of County fairs, where delivery is done by the FPSL customer is responsible for meat pick up at time of delivery at fairground or otherwise. Customer will be charged a delivery fee. If meat is not picked up customer is still responsible for delivery fee.