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Letter to the Editor: Sound science should reflect relevant data

By Guest Contributor on December 9, 2020
Opinion

Dear Editor,

In her letter “Letter to the Editor: Industry supporter out of line on line speeds,” (https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2020/11/letter-to-the-editor-industry-supporter-out-of-line-on-line-speeds/) Jessica Chapman offers her ad hominem opinion that I am “an industry supporter whose…
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Letter to the Editor: USDA move to outsource inspections is recipe for disaster

By Guest Contributor on January 17, 2020
Opinion

Dear Editor,

I am submitting this letter in response to Dan Flynn’s earlier piece regarding pork inspection line speeds.

The federal government’s decision to put pork producers in charge of their own food safety…
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Letter to the Editor: No obfuscation if you keep to the facts

By Food Safety News Readers on January 28, 2018

Written in response to: Eschewing obfuscation on poultry slaughter line speeds 

Let’s be clear and stick to the facts when discussing line speeds in poultry plants. Parsing words and bending facts will have real victims:…
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Letter to the Editor: USDA should rethink pork line speed plan

By Food Safety News Readers on January 27, 2018

On Jan. 19, the U.S. Department of Agriculture released a proposed rule that would lift current caps on line speeds in pork processing plants and reduce federal oversight in these facilities.

The proposed rule is…
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Slaughter practices more significant than poultry line speeds

By Carl Custer on January 15, 2018

Editor’s note: This opinion column offers a differing view from that presented by guest columnist Brian Ronholm in “Eschewing obfuscation on poultry slaughter line speed.” 

Poultry slaughter would flunk HACCP 101. The primary…
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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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Briefly: Whoa, chicken — Summit discounts — Bakers fined

By Kelsey M. Mackin on December 15, 2017

Every hour of every day people around the world are living with and working to resolve food safety issues. Here is a sampling of current headlines for your consumption, brought to you today with the…
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NIOSH Director Says FSIS Administrator Misinterpreted Line-Speed Study

By News Desk on April 10, 2014

John Howard, director of the CDC’s National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), is concerned that the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS) has misinterpreted the findings of a recent study…
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NIOSH Study: Line Speed Not an Issue in Poultry Inspection Overhaul

By Dan Flynn on March 21, 2014

Extended full-time work in the poultry industry does come with the risk of carpal tunnel syndrome and other musculoskeletal disorders and injuries, but line speed does not appear to contribute all that much to the…
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Debate Grows Over Poultry Worker Safety Under Proposed HIMP Regulations

By James Andrews on March 6, 2014

Last week, organizations representing consumers and farm workers convened in Washington, D.C., to speak with members of Congress and U.S. Department of Agriculture officials about the threat they feel new poultry plant regulations pose to…
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