Associated Press WEST DES MOINES, Iowa — The union representing workers at chicken processing plants in six states sued the U.S. Department of Agriculture on Tuesday, saying its policy of allowing ...

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 ...

Researchers in Arkansas and two other states will be using a $5 million grant to increase the use of artificial intelligence and robotics in chicken processing to reduce waste in deboning and detect ...

Data released on January 10 from a USDA report, Poultry Processing Line Speed Evaluation Study (PULSE), found that 81% of workers were at increased risk of musculoskeletal disorders across all ...

Robotics, virtual reality and artificial intelligence could be game changers for poultry processors following promising results in research to integrate those technologies, according to Jeyam Subbiah, ...

In virtually all markets, it is a legal requirement to chill carcasses immediately after evisceration to prevent the growth of harmful pathogens. The temperature to which products must be cooled ...

STACYVILLE, Iowa — Farm Service Agency leaders toured a plant designed to be the model for independent poulty processing plants nationwide, as they looked for solutions in the wake of Tyson Foods ...

Workers on evisceration lines at poultry and swine plants are at increased risk for musculoskeletal disorders, studies released by USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service conclude. But neither ...

Employees work to process chickens in a meat plant. Tyson's investments in automation will largely impact its chicken deboning operations. Tyson Foods plans to spend $1.3 billion over the next three ...

More than 80% of poultry slaughterhouse workers and half of hog processing employees testing faster line speeds are at high risk of developing chronic conditions like arthritis and carpal tunnel ...

The spectrometry and biofluorometer systems give a percentage of how clean or dirty a poultry processing plant surface is.