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 ...

Workers in meatpacking and poultry processing plants in Michigan now have more guidelines and standards in place to help keep them safe. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Thursday signed an executive order ...

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 ...

KANSAS CITY — When you ask Carmen Rottenberg, acting deputy undersecretary for food safety and administrator of the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) what her top priority is for making meat, ...

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins announced new actions to “reduce burdens” on the U.S. pork and poultry ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has announced is has invested more than $43 million in meat and poultry processing research, innovation and expansion in an effort to transform the food system at ...

As meat and poultry plants remain open during the coronavirus pandemic, NPR's Michel Martin discusses worker safety with two people who have firsthand knowledge: David Michaels and Mark Lauritsen.

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 ...

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 ...

When preparing or "dressing" raw chicken for cooking, care must be taken to prevent salmonella and other infections. Poultry is a popular pick to grace the dinner table. However, if not properly ...

A federal court has found a Berks County poultry processing company in contempt for failing to pay $162,359 in penalties after federal inspectors found numerous safety hazards they classified as ...