Continuous mixing of meat and a dry bulk ingredient

An apparatus for mixing a meat ingredient with a dry bulk ingredient includes a static inline mixer 20, allowing the meat product to be formed in a continuous process, rather than a batch process. A supply arrangement supplies a stream of the meat ingredient and a stream of the dry bulk ingredient to the mixer, and the rate of meat ingredient supplied in the stream thereof is controlled, in proportion to the rate of dry bulk ingredient, on the basis of the weight of the meat ingredient. The streams of the meat ingredient and dry bulk ingredient are fed into a container housing an auger 22, fig 9 that transfers the contents of the container to the mixer, as well as providing initial mixing.