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China refuses imports from Fort Smith and Springfield poultry plants in U.S.

By News Desk on September 18, 2020

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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Farmworkers’ input on food safety now turns to coronavirus safety

By Cookson Beecher on April 21, 2020

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…
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Death, illness reports cause industry to get busy with COVID-19 mitigation measures

By Dan Flynn on April 10, 2020

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…
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Tyson chicken strip recall for metal pieces expanded to nearly 6000 tons

By News Desk on May 4, 2019

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…
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Tyson Foods fined $263K for OSHA violations at Texas chicken plant

By News Desk on August 19, 2016

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. tysonfoodsvigAccording to…
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Tyson, McDonald’s Cut Ties With TN Chicken Farm After Video Showing Abuse

By News Desk on August 28, 2015

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…
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Foster Farms Cuts Back on Antibiotics Use

By Lydia Zuraw on June 2, 2015

http://www.dreamstime.com/stock-photography-chickens-cot-image13995122Foster 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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Responsible Antibiotics Use Standard Introduced for Chicken in School Lunches

By Lydia Zuraw on May 8, 2015

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…
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Tyson ‘Striving to Eliminate’ Human Antibiotics in Chickens

By James Andrews on April 29, 2015

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,…
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Tyson Announces Removal of Antibiotics From its Chicken Hatcheries

By News Desk on October 2, 2014

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 Recalls Chicken Nuggets for ‘Foreign Matter Contamination’

By News Desk on April 4, 2014

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…
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