All the headlines from our Meat Processing Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 19 2008 // A north Alabama poultry firm has voluntarily recalled about 943,000 pounds of various fresh and frozen poultry giblets and fresh carcasses with giblets inserted, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced, citing a...
Feb 19 2008 // U.S. Senate and House committees are planning hearings on worker safety in the poultry industry following a report by The Charlotte Observer on House of Raeford, congressional leaders and aides said.“All Americans...
Oct 24 2007 // In the months before issuing a massive recall of its frozen hamburgers, Topps Meat Co. curtailed testing of ground beef and skipped other safeguards aimed at preventing contaminated meat from reaching consumers, according...
Oct 5 2007 // As government scientists searched for the source of a multistate E. coli outbreak linked to frozen hamburgers, a class-action lawsuit was filed Wednesday against the New Jersey producer of the patties and supermarkets that...
Apr 26 2007 // The company that distributed hamburger patties believed to have sickened at least three children with E. coli bacteria in the Western United States is blaming the contamination on the slaughterhouse that processed the...
Feb 23 2007 // Stepped-up inspections at some meat and poultry plants are set to begin in April, according to an Agriculture Department official overseeing the first overhaul of food safety inspections in a decade.The new policy is...
May 8 2006 // The federal government could learn a thing or two from the Delaware- Maryland-Virginia area poultry industry about how to prepare for an outbreak of avian flu, according to the Delmarva industry officials.In a meeting...
May 8 2006 // News CurrentsThe federal government could learn a thing or two from the Delaware- Maryland-Virginia area poultry industry about how to prepare for an outbreak of avian flu, according to the Delmarva industry officials. In...
Sep 28 2005 // A survey of poultry workers in western North Carolina reveals high rates of injuries, as well as significant differences among poultry companies in numbers of injuries and how workers view company emphasis on safety.The...
Aug 29 2005 // A Jay, Okla., woman received a three-year deferred sentence and was ordered to pay $3,692.50 in restitution after pleading guilty in Delaware County District Court, state Attorney General Drew Edmondson said.Gregoria...