Federal law enforcement may be catching up with ransomware threats. The progress comes after costly threats to food and energy companies like meat producer JBS and the Colonial Pipeline
The Justice Department Monday announced recent
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JBS USA Food Co. a Greeley, CO, firm and Importer of Record, is recalling 4,860 pounds of imported boneless beef products that may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7, according to the the U.S. Department
Continue Reading Government tests show E. coli in frozen beef; JBS launches recall
JBS Food Canada has recalled its Provigo brand ground beef products from the market because of possible E. coli O157 contamination. The recall warns the public against consuming theses recalled products:
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The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited a second large meat production company for failing to protect employees from exposure to the coronavirus.
Nearly 300 JBS employees in Greeley,
Continue Reading OSHA fines JBS beef plant in Colorado for failing to protect employees from virus
By Brendan Fischer and Maggie Christ
Despite what you might think, America’s broken campaign finance system is about more than expensive ads flooding your screen and glossy mailers clogging your mailbox. The outsized
Continue Reading Senator’s Call for Meat Industry’s Answers Exposes Reach of Money in Politics
Even though agriculture is the basis of civilization as we know it now, it is for the most part separate from most of us. We all eat, but how the food actually gets to the
Continue Reading Farmworkers’ input on food safety now turns to coronavirus safety
Latino food workers are at risk of contracting coronavirus at their jobs, which is not only a risk to their health but also to the nation’s food supply, according to a Hispanic civil rights organization.
Continue Reading Food worker advocates say lack of PPE endangering nation’s food supply
Saul Sanchez, a 78-year old “green hat” supervisor at the JBS beef plant in Greeley, CO, died from COVID-19 on April 7. He worked at the Greeley beef plant for more than 30 years.
After
Continue Reading Death, illness reports cause industry to get busy with COVID-19 mitigation measures
Before 2007, before Brazil’s JBS S.A. bought Swift & Co. for $1.5 billion in an all-cash deal, there was not any question about a U.S. meat company being caught up in a breath-taking South American
Continue Reading DeLauro challenges USDA officials about JBS corruption in meat industry
If you haven’t heard, a Seattle attorney is petitioning the USDA to make it illegal to sell meat and poultry that is contaminated with Salmonella.
Yep, as of right now — and who knows
Continue Reading Beach Beat: The faces behind the petition
