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 and injunction against Tony Downs Food Company, a meat and poultry processor.
The state wants to stop the company from illegally
Continue Reading Minnesota Labor Dept. seeks an injunction to stop another meat processing company from illegally hiring children for dangerous jobs
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 is to allow employment by those who are underage in prohibited jobs so long as the employment is part of a
Continue Reading Child labor law reductions might become Iowa’s solution to labor shortages
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 open.
The Defense Production Act or DPA was passed by Congress in 1950 and signed into law by President
Continue Reading Updated — Executive Order to meat Industry: No more closures
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 review will be considered at a meeting by the Boards of the Food Standards Agency (FSA) and Food Standards Scotland
Continue Reading Meat sector review identifies areas for improvement
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 on veal safety in January. It has almost been a year since the committee last met.
The two-day public meeting will review
Continue Reading FSIS Seeks Input from NACMPI on Veal Safety
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 Food Safety News reminded me that my “Publisher’s Platform” was due. After spending most of my day reading about the horrible
Continue Reading Publisher’s Platform: Putting Me Out the Beef Business
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 in implementing the Food Safety and Inspection Service’s new policy on non-O157 E. coli. The new rule, set to take
Continue Reading Meat Industry Again Asks for Delay on Non-O157 Policy
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 latest massive food safety recall hit the news – 36 million pounds of ground turkey possibly tainted with Salmonella, courtesy
Continue Reading Why the Meat Industry Sells Salmonella
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 attention.
These hearings are about concentration in the beef and pork industries, and about whether the four ownership groups that control
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 riot was over, fires were started, windows were smashed, and 14 people were injured.
All that should be cleaned up
Continue Reading Meat Industry AntiTrust Workshop Friday in CO
