meat industry

Minnesota Labor Dept. seeks an injunction to stop another meat processing company from illegally hiring children for dangerous jobs

A state court in Minnesota’s Fifth Judicial District has been asked in a 16-page complaint by the Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry (DLI) for a temporary restraining order

By Dan Flynn

/ 17 Mar 2023

Minnesota Labor Dept. seeks an injunction to stop another meat processing company from illegally hiring children for dangerous jobs

Child labor law reductions might become Iowa’s solution to labor shortages

Child labor bills in Iowa might grease the skids for human trafficking but that’s not apparently a concern for sponsors. The approach for changes in child labor in Iowa

By Dan Flynn

/ 6 Mar 2023

Child labor law reductions might become Iowa’s solution to labor shortages

Updated — Executive Order to meat Industry: No more closures

Updated content throughout — President Donald J. Trump has by Executive Order placed the American meat industry under the Defense Production Act to prevent meat shortages by keeping meat processing plants

By Dan Flynn

/ 28 Apr 2020

Updated — Executive Order to meat Industry: No more closures

Meat sector review identifies areas for improvement

A review of meat processing plants in the United Kingdom following a number of high-profile issues has spurred a series of recommendations to improve the industry. Suggestions in the draft

By Joe Whitworth

/ 15 Oct 2018

Meat sector review identifies areas for improvement

FSIS Seeks Input from NACMPI on Veal Safety

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service announced that it will host a meeting of the National Advisory Committee on Meat and Poultry Inspection focused

By News Desk

/ 19 Dec 2012

Publisher’s Platform: Putting Me Out the Beef Business

I was sitting in my office in Seattle watching the snowfall on this St. Patrick’s Day, while working on one of the latest food disasters, when the staff at

By Bill Marler

/ 18 Mar 2012

Meat Industry Again Asks for Delay on Non-O157 Policy

Adding to the pressure facing federal food safety officials, a coalition of meat industry groups, both domestic and international, wrote to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack late last week urging delay

By Helena Bottemiller

/ 12 Dec 2011

Why the Meat Industry Sells Salmonella

As a lawyer who writes about food policy, one of my biggest frustrations is how reporters often get the law wrong, or omit critical pieces of information. Last week the

By Michele Simon

/ 8 Aug 2011

Letter from the Editor: Antitrust

As the joint DOJ/USDA workshop on antitrust issues in the meat industry got underway in Fort Collins, CO Friday morning, Attorney General Eric Holder said something that caught my

By Dan Flynn

/ 28 Aug 2010

Meat Industry AntiTrust Workshop Friday in CO

Early Sunday morning in Fort Collins, CO, police got to try out their tear gas and mobile field-in-force tactics after fights broke out after a Bohemian Nights concert. Before the

By Dan Flynn

/ 23 Aug 2010

Meat Industry Adds to Hall of Fame

Being only the second group named, several more of this year’s inductees to the Meat Industry Hall of Fame are deceased legends from a time when their names alone

By Dan Flynn

/ 11 Jul 2010

Questioning the Search for More Strains of E. coli

Here is an easy case to make: The pursuit of E. coli O157:H7 and its total eradication has been the holy grail of the meat industry since at least

By Chuck Jolley

/ 24 Jun 2010

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meat industry

Minnesota Labor Dept. seeks an injunction to stop another meat processing company from illegally hiring children for dangerous jobs

Child labor law reductions might become Iowa’s solution to labor shortages

Updated — Executive Order to meat Industry: No more closures

Meat sector review identifies areas for improvement

FSIS Seeks Input from NACMPI on Veal Safety

Publisher’s Platform: Putting Me Out the Beef Business

Meat Industry Again Asks for Delay on Non-O157 Policy

Why the Meat Industry Sells Salmonella

Letter from the Editor: Antitrust

Meat Industry AntiTrust Workshop Friday in CO

Meat Industry Adds to Hall of Fame

Questioning the Search for More Strains of E. coli

Your Support Protects Public Health