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Child labor and food fraud are food manufacturing activities that don’t bode well for food safety.
Food fraud comes and goes, but child labor just continues to build, with the food industry losing any embarrassment it once had for employing children.
And in a new twist, more
Continue Reading Child labor is a serial offense, and does not bode well for food safety
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
Continue Reading Tennessee meat processor allows children to work on dangerous equipment
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
Finding 10-year-old kids working in a kitchen late at night near dangerous cooking equipment is a cause for child labor concern and action by the U.S. Department of Labor. It is also a food safety concern.
Investigators from the department’s Wage and Hour Division found two 10-year-old workers at a
Continue Reading McDonald’s pays $212,500 in fines for three franchises with child labor violations
Shortly after I began working in a daily newspaper newsroom, someone mentioned that a story “had legs.” I did not have a clue as to what he was talking about. Finally, after hearing the phrase used again in context, I understood it meant the story was moving on its own
Continue Reading Letter From The Editor: This story has legs
The JBS Beef Plant in Grand Island, NE, the end-user in an apparent child labor scheme, is not being touched by the civil enforcement action. The labor contractor JBS was using, however, is named by a Consent Order and Judgment signed by federal Judge John M. Gerrard.
For the labor
Continue Reading Nebraska’s child labor case is settled without involving JBS beef plantThe 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 OSHA inspectors, the violations by the one of the nation’s largest meat and poultry processors
Continue Reading Tyson Foods fined $263K for OSHA violations at Texas chicken plant
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited an Ohio poultry processing facility operated by Case Farms Processing Inc. for two willful, 20 repeat, 30 serious, and three other-than-serious safety and health violations. The country’s 13th-largest supplier of chicken, whose customers include national fast-food and
Continue Reading Ohio Poultry Processor Faces $861,500 in Fines From OSHA
Following an inspection of a Delaware poultry plant, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) found nine worker-related safety violations and proposed a penalty of $38,000. According to OSHA, the poultry processor, Allen Harim Foods LLC in Harbeson, DE, has been exposing poultry plant workers
Continue Reading OSHA Proposes $38K Fine for Chicken Processor Over Worker Injuries
