In February, the United States Department of Agriculture announced two proposed changes to federal rules governing the rate ...

Jill Mauer spent more than 30 years as a government inspector, watching over meat plants as workers slaughtered and processed ...

A third-party study at six plants concluded that line speeds were not determined to be the leading factor in worker ...

The USDA’s proposals would update processing requirements for poultry and pork establishments operating under modern ...

In 2021, FSIS permitted increased line speeds at six pork processing plants while collecting data to evaluate the impact of ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is proposing to amend its regulations to allow poultry and pork processing plants to operate at higher line speeds. U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins said ...

CHICAGO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration said on Monday it plans to permanently allow U.S. poultry and pork processing plants to operate more quickly, raising concerns among advocacy ...

The pork industry is awaiting action by USDA ahead of Nov. 30 on whether processing plants can move to the faster line speeds that a few facilities have been allowed to use in a time-limited trial.

Washington — Trump’s Department of Agriculture (USDA) has issued proposed rules to gut slaughterhouse line speed regulations at poultry and pork processing facilities. If finalized, the poultry rule ...

The Agriculture Department’s Food Safety and Inspection Service is proposing new rules that would allow faster line speeds at pork and poultry processing facilities. This week's Open Mic guest is ...

The Trump administration has directed the US Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) to accelerate pork and poultry processing by removing “outdated” administrative requirements. These “outdated” ...