All the headlines from our Meat Processing Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 2 2016 // The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is pushing back against a local judge in Georgia’s recommendation to deny the agency a warrant to inspect the Mar-Jac poultry plant in Gainesville for worker-safety...
May 4 2016 // After fighting for more than two years to avoid paying almost $1 billion in oil spill damages to Gulf Coast shrimpers, oystermen and seafood processors it claimed didn’t exist, BP Plc has thrown in the...
Feb 9 2016 // Congress’ decision to quadruple the size of a guest-worker program might be described as a gift to Louisiana’s seafood processing industry, which struggles to fill the seasonal jobs each year.The LSU AgCenter...
Jan 29 2016 // In the two weeks since bird flu reappeared in Indiana, U.S. veterinarians have swabbed the mouths of chickens and turkeys across the country, racing to uncover any more infections and contain the virus before it causes...
Jan 28 2016 // Named a “severe violator” by federal safety officials, a frozen seafood distributor operating a plant in Brownsville, Texas, has been hit with $155,000 in fines over workplace safety hazards.The federal...
Mar 4 2015 // The family of a cleaning worker who was killed when he fell into a running industrial meat blender at an Oregon plant is suing the meat distributor for $5 million.The Oregonian reported that the lawsuit filed last week in...
Feb 26 2014 // BP Plc lost a bid to have a judge suspend about $1.3 billion in payments to seafood-industry workers who are part of the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill settlement because of alleged improprieties by a lawyer involved in the...
Jan 8 2014 // U.S. crops are escaping record- setting cold weather with little damage, while the arctic blast drove cattle prices to a record as animals struggle to gain weight.The coldest spots in Florida citrus groves were near...
Dec 27 2013 // U.S. poultry producers have dramatically reduced the presence of harmful bacteria in poultry meat, a trade group said on Friday in defending the food safety record of the industry.“The numbers tell us we’re...
Jul 16 2013 // More than two dozen Mississippi slaughterhouses and poultry meat processing plants have violated sanitation or food safety guidelines over the past decade — and most did both, The Jackson Clarion-Ledger reported.The...
Jun 7 2013 // Safety management at the Chinese firm whose poultry slaughterhouse caught fire earlier this week killing 120 people was a “total mess” and two senior executives have been detained by the authorities, state...
Jun 5 2013 // Workers at a poultry slaughterhouse in northeastern China where 119 people died in a fire this week saw nothing odd in the plant’s doors being locked, even after a previous fire at the 4-year-old facility.One...
Oct 5 2012 // National interest in locally grown food and grass-fed beef are catching on in Hawaii, offering ranchers an opportunity to sell cattle in the islands and send fewer of them to states like California and Kansas. But crushing...
Feb 23 2012 // Fresno County authorities are offering $100,000 for information leading to an arrest in last month’s arson attack California’s biggest beef processor.Sheriff’s officials announced the reward Tuesday. The...
Jan 10 2012 // Investigators say arson is suspected in a blaze that destroyed 14 big-rig tractors and several trailers at California’s Harris Farms cattle operation, the state’s largest cattle feeder, beef processor and beef...
Mar 18 2011 // Patrick Cudahy’s parent company has reached a $208 million settlement with its insurance carriers over a fire that destroyed part of its meatpacking plant in a Milwaukee, Wis., suburb.An earnings report filed by...
Jun 8 2009 // Federal workplace safety regulators are investigating the death of a 20-year-old man at a food processing plant in Fall River, MassachusettsPolice say Justin Cordeiro, an employee at Blount Fine Foods, died from injuries...
Jul 10 2008 // The U.S. agriculture secretary expressed confidence in the nation’s food safety system, but said the meat processing industry will always face challenges because the bacteria that animals carry evolves.“I...
May 5 2008 // Several employees at the Quality Pork Processors plant in Austin, Minn., who were initially denied workers’ compensation for a mysterious neurological illness will be paid after all, attorneys said.At least 18...
Apr 24 2008 // Several employees at the Quality Pork Processors plant in Austin, Minnesota who were initially denied workers compensation for a mysterious neurological illness will be paid after all, attorneys said.At least 18 workers...