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.