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

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 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 ...

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 United Food and Commercial Workers Union and the public submitted more than 42,000 comments opposing proposed rule changes for meat plants.

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.

Lawmakers wrote to the agency asking them to reverse course on proposed rulemaking that would permanently increase line ...

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has directed the US Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) to accelerate pork and poultry processing by removing “outdated” administrative requirements. These “outdated” ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Tuesday finalized a new rule reducing the number of food safety inspectors in pork slaughter plants and eliminating limits on line speeds, sparking warnings that ...

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 ...