Yet another meatpacking and food processing business has been caught using children in dangerous labor roles. This time, the company involved had to pay a six-figure fine and was briefly prohibited from shipping beef jerky, cheese, and sausage from the involved location.
Monogram Meats Snacks paid $140,164 in civil money
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Child labor violations of employing minors have cost a Minnesota meat plant $30,000 in fines imposed by the U.S. Department of Labor. It is the latest in fines for the meat industry paid for its child labor practices.
Tennessee-based Monogram Meat Snacks was accused of employing minors at its production
Continue Reading Labor Department nabs another child labor violator
Officials at the USDA have offered scant details on a nationwide recall of five flavors of snack sausages, except to say the action was necessary because of “possible product contamination.” The sausages do not require refrigeration. Their best-by dates reach into 2020.
“This recall is being initiated due to product
Continue Reading USDA mum on product tampering behind 96-ton snack sausage recall
