Four years after the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota struck down USDA’s rule eliminating line speed limits in pork and poultry plants, Republican Rep. Brad Finstad has introduced ...

A U.S. District Court judge for the Northern District of California, San Francisco Division, dismissed a lawsuit filed four years ago against the USDA regarding its decision to increase line speeds at ...

One USDA program is going down to the wire with changes. The Food Service and inspection Service of the USDA has announced that it is extending its modified poultry line speed waivers so a study ...

Water quality could impact the kind of microbial populations in poultry drinking water lines and lead to the buildup of a ...

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WASHINGTON -- Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack on July 31 announced a new long-awaited poultry inspection rule that will require companies to conduct microbiological tests for patho-gens that cannot ...

The Humane Society of the U.S. and other groups are suing USDA over its 2018 rule allowing chicken processing plants to increase their line speeds to a rate of 175 birds per minute. “Slaughtering ...

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 ...

Coronavirus cases are rising, but the Trump administration is making its last push to allow chicken slaughterhouses to speed up production lines, something seen as a potential threat to social ...

In 2023, it made up 38.3% of all fresh meat sold — 6 billion pounds, up 1.4% year-over-year, whereas beef slipped 1%, down to 5.7 billion pounds. Fresh poultry retail sales hit $18.4 billion, climbing ...

Washington, D.C. – On Friday the USDA announced that it had withdrawn a proposed rule from the Trump administration that would have rolled back line-speed standards at poultry plants to allow for ...