For the second time since June, China has suspended imports from a U.S. poultry plant where employees became infected with the coronavirus.
First to face suspension was poultry from a Tyson Foods plant in Springdale,
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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
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
Arkansas’s Tyson Foods, Inc. has recalled approximately 11,829,517 million pounds of frozen, ready-to-eat chicken strip products that may be contaminated with extraneous materials, specifically pieces of metal, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food
Continue Reading Tyson chicken strip recall for metal pieces expanded to nearly 6000 tons
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has fined Tyson Foods $263,498 for 15 “serious” and two “repeated” workplace safety violations at the company’s chicken processing facility in Center, TX. 
According to
Continue Reading Tyson Foods fined $263K for OSHA violations at Texas chicken plant
Two major food corporations with well-known brands to protect have cut ties with a Tennessee chicken farm that finds itself the latest target of an animal abuse investigation by Los Angeles-based Mercy for Animals. First
Continue Reading Tyson, McDonald’s Cut Ties With TN Chicken Farm After Video Showing Abuse
Foster Farms, the California-based company linked to an outbreak of multi-drug resistant Salmonella Heidelberg that sickened 634 people in 2013 and 2014, is the latest major chicken producer to go antibiotic-free. The company announced Monday
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Starting next fall, U.S. schools will have a new option for the type of chicken they purchase for school lunches. School Food FOCUS (Food Options for Children in the United States) and The Pew Charitable
Continue Reading Responsible Antibiotics Use Standard Introduced for Chicken in School Lunches
Tyson Foods, the largest poultry producer in the U.S., announced Tuesday that it would strive to quit using human antibiotics in its chicken flocks by the end of September 2017. The company, based in Springdale,
Continue Reading Tyson ‘Striving to Eliminate’ Human Antibiotics in Chickens
Tyson Foods has announced that, as of Oct. 1, it no longer uses antibiotics in its 35 chicken hatcheries. “Since the antibiotic typically used in hatcheries is important to human health, this is a significant
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Tyson Foods Inc. of Springdale, AR, is recalling approximately 75,320 pounds of frozen, fully cooked chicken nugget products that may be contaminated with extraneous materials, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service
Continue Reading Tyson Foods Recalls Chicken Nuggets for ‘Foreign Matter Contamination’
