Lawmakers want USDA to maintain line speeds in poultry and pork plants, citing food safety
In addition to worker safety, the letter points to food safety issues for federal inspectors who will be forced to significantly increase the number of hogs and poultry they review per hour.
A group of federal lawmakers has asked the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service to stop efforts to raise line speed limits at some poultry-processing facilities and remove maximum speeds for certain pork processors.
“Line speed limits exist to protect workers and food safety, and increasing those limits with no new safeguards only worsens the risks,” the group, led by Sen. Cory Booker, D-NJ, and Rep. Ro Khanna, D-CA, wrote in a letter to FSIS Under Secretary for Food Safety Mindy Brashears.
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