Meat and poultry processors are under increasing pressure to balance throughput, yield and cut quality as product variability and increasingly demanding appearance requirements continue to reshape ...

"Most poultry processing facilities have made substantial efforts to address work-related MSDs," OSHA Administrator John Henshaw said. "Those results demonstrate that methods are available to better ...

Poultry companies have agreed to pay $84.8 million to compensate processing plant workers under agreements with the Justice Department that will allow a major acquisition to go forward and could spell ...

Five executives from the poultry processing industry have been found not guilty of conspiring to fix prices. A jury in a Denver federal court acquitted former Pilgrim’s Pride CEOs Jayson Penn and ...

New Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) guidance goes beyond poultry barns to cover all animal slaughtering and processing facilities. Previous OSHA guidance only applied to poultry ...

While most employers do not take issue with CDC and OSHA recommendations related to hand washing, sanitizing, personal protective equipment (PPE), or even employee screening – the social distancing ...

Serious injuries from working in poultry processing plants have decreased in the past 10 years, but workers are still at a high risk for musculoskeletal disorders from repetitive motions. A U.S.

There are many arguments, pro and con, about efforts of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) to renovate its meat processing inspection process. In my last ...

There are fears for an industry worth $8bn after a highly contagious strain of deadly bird flu was detected on Australia’s ...

The coronavirus pandemic has taken a toll on the poultry industry — especially those who work at the processing plants. Hundreds of workers, most of whom are immigrants, have contracted COVID-19. Meat ...