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UK regulators call for nationwide review of meat-cutting plants

By Catharine Huddle on February 6, 2018

Great Britain’s food regulators are calling for a nationwide review of all meat-cutting plants after the discovery of serious incidents at production facilities of two major suppliers, 2 Sisters Food Group and Russell Hume.

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Eschewing obfuscation on poultry slaughter line speed

By Brian Ronholm on January 13, 2018

The key to understanding the complexities in the debate over the line speed issue for poultry production is to recognize that there is a distinct difference between the line speed for slaughter and the line…
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Tyson Foods fined $263K for OSHA violations at Texas chicken plant

By News Desk on August 19, 2016

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has fined Tyson Foods $263,498 for 15 “serious” and two “repeated” workplace safety violations at the company’s chicken processing facility in Center, TX. tysonfoodsvigAccording to…
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Undercover Investigation Alleges Abuse of Chickens, Workers at Tyson Slaughter Plant in Texas

By Cathy Siegner on September 16, 2015

The Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF) has released undercover video footage from inside a Tyson Foods Inc. slaughter plant in Carthage, Texas, which the group asserts documents a system exploiting both workers and animals. The…
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Advocates Petition Congress to Block Chinese Chicken

By Lydia Zuraw on January 14, 2014

Food safety advocates have launched a Change.org petition aimed at getting Congress to keep chicken from China off U.S. plates. The petition asks Congress and the Obama administration to ensure that Chinese-processed chicken is not…
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Ohio Senator Wants USDA's Poultry Inspectors Assigned to China; Charges 'Labeling Gap'

By Dan Flynn on September 20, 2013

American consumers need USDA “on station” to inspect chicken processing as it occurs in China, and a “labeling gap” is putting U.S. food safety at risk, U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) suggests in a letter…
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How China Got Approval to Process and Export U.S. Chicken

By Dan Flynn on September 5, 2013

For two weeks this past March, an audit team from USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) was all over the People’s Republic of China’s poultry-processing system. Their task was to determine if China’s processing…
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GAO Report Questions USDA Plans to Change Poultry Inspection Program

By News Desk on September 4, 2013

A Government Accountability Office report being released Wednesday questions whether the U.S. Department of Agriculture used bad information to justify plans for nearly nationwide expansion of its poultry-inspection pilot program. According to Tuesday’s Washington Post…
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