One of the world's largest beef processors will begin labeling their meats when finely textured beef is used to make U.S. ground beef products by spring, Reuters reported.

Cargill Inc. produces a finely textured beef made of beef chunks, including trimmings, and uses citric acid to kill E. coli and other contaminants, Reuters reported. This beef has been produced since 1993 and is used to produce higher-volume, less fatty ground beef.

As consumers demand more transparency from meat companies after last year's media scandal of Beef Products Inc., a South Dakota-based company, agribusiness are beginning to disclose how the food is made and are including more information on the packaging, according to Reuters.

According to Cargill, the new ground-beef packaging will debut in early 2014 and was encouraged by a survey of more than 3,000 consumers over a period of 18 months and questioned them on their views of ground beef and how it is produced, Reuters reported.

The survey was created after the media coverage of BPI, which produced a similar product called "lean finely textured beef" but uses instead ammonium hydroxide to kill contaminants instead of the citric acid used at Cargill, according to Reuters.

Due to that small difference, Cargill remained out of media spotlight over BPI's "pink slime" ground-beef, but reported a drop of 80 percent in their version of finely textured beef, Reuters reported.

According to Cargill, the survey's showed that consumers wanted to know when such products were included in their ground beefs.

"We've listened to the public, as well as our customers, and that is why today we are declaring our commitment to labeling Finely Textured Beef," John Keating, president of Cargill Beef, said in a statement released Tuesday.

Company officials stated the new packaging will immediately include proper labeling on boxes of ground beef that retailers will then repackage to sell to the public, Reuters reported. The branded packages of ground beef that are sold to consumers will display the same labeling by spring of 2014.

Before the media coverage of BPI in the spring of 2012, neither BPI or Cargill ground-beef were labeled with using finely textured beef, but after the Agriculture Department approved the altering of packaging to disclose the presence of such products, both have supported the change in order to restore consumer confidence, Reuters reported.