Latest Meat Processing Headlines
All the headlines from our Meat Processing Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Judge Orders North Carolina-Based Pork Producer to Clean Up Water Pollution
Dec 8 2017 // A major pork producer must live up to an agreement it signed 11 years ago and work on cleaning up water pollution tied to almost a dozen industry-scale hog operations, a federal judge ruled this week. Murphy-Brown LLC must...
Bird Flu Restrictions Ended for Georgia Poultry Producers
Apr 25 2017 // Officials say they have ended restrictions on poultry producers that were enacted after the first confirmation of avian influenza in commercial birds in Georgia. News outlets report state veterinarian Robert M. Cobb Jr....
Minnesota Better Prepared for Bird Flu, Poultry Producers Say
Mar 31 2017 // Minnesota is better prepared for a potential bird flu return after a devastating 2015 epidemic, according to poultry producers and experts. Poultry farmers are waiting as the early spring opens water on lakes and rivers,...
OSHA Fines Alabama Meat Processing Plant $76K After Worker Loses Fingertip
Sep 9 2016 // A meat processing plant in Bakerhill, Ala., has been fined more than $70,000 following an investigation after a worker lost his fingertip. Al.com reports the Keystone Food plant is facing about $76,700 in proposed...
OSHA Fights Georgia Poultry Plant Over Right to Inspect Facility
Sep 2 2016 // The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is pushing back against a local judge in Georgia’s recommendation to deny the agency a warrant to inspect the Mar-Jac poultry plant in Gainesville for worker-safety...
BP Relents on Gulf Seafood Processors’ Oil Spill Damages But Still Pursues Attorney
May 4 2016 // After fighting for more than two years to avoid paying almost $1 billion in oil spill damages to Gulf Coast shrimpers, oystermen and seafood processors it claimed didn’t exist, BP Plc has thrown in the...
Louisiana Seafood Industry Benefits from Guest-Worker Program
Feb 9 2016 // Congress’ decision to quadruple the size of a guest-worker program might be described as a gift to Louisiana’s seafood processing industry, which struggles to fill the seasonal jobs each year. The LSU AgCenter...
Officials, Poultry Producers Hope Nationwide Testing Contains Indiana Bird Flu
Jan 29 2016 // In the two weeks since bird flu reappeared in Indiana, U.S. veterinarians have swabbed the mouths of chickens and turkeys across the country, racing to uncover any more infections and contain the virus before it causes...
Frozen Seafood Distributor Faces $115K for Safety Violations in Texas
Jan 28 2016 // Named a “severe violator” by federal safety officials, a frozen seafood distributor operating a plant in Brownsville, Texas, has been hit with $155,000 in fines over workplace safety hazards. The federal...
Family of Oregon Worker Killed in Blender Sues Meat Distributor
Mar 4 2015 // The family of a cleaning worker who was killed when he fell into a running industrial meat blender at an Oregon plant is suing the meat distributor for $5 million. The Oregonian reported that the lawsuit filed last week in...
BP Loses Bid to Halt Payments to Seafood Workers
Feb 26 2014 // BP Plc lost a bid to have a judge suspend about $1.3 billion in payments to seafood-industry workers who are part of the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill settlement because of alleged improprieties by a lawyer involved in the...
U.S. Crops Escaping Cold Snap with Little Damage
Jan 8 2014 // U.S. crops are escaping record- setting cold weather with little damage, while the arctic blast drove cattle prices to a record as animals struggle to gain weight. The coldest spots in Florida citrus groves were near...
Poultry Industry Refutes Consumer Reports, Says Chicken Breasts Safe
Dec 27 2013 // U.S. poultry producers have dramatically reduced the presence of harmful bacteria in poultry meat, a trade group said on Friday in defending the food safety record of the industry. “The numbers tell us we’re...
Report Looks at Mississippi Meat Plants’ Food Safety
Jul 16 2013 // More than two dozen Mississippi slaughterhouses and poultry meat processing plants have violated sanitation or food safety guidelines over the past decade — and most did both, The Jackson Clarion-Ledger reported. The...
China: Company Bears ‘Unshirkable Responsibility’ for Deadly Poultry Plant Blaze
Jun 7 2013 // Safety management at the Chinese firm whose poultry slaughterhouse caught fire earlier this week killing 120 people was a “total mess” and two senior executives have been detained by the authorities, state...
China Poultry Plant Workers Didn’t Question Locked Doors
Jun 5 2013 // Workers at a poultry slaughterhouse in northeastern China where 119 people died in a fire this week saw nothing odd in the plant’s doors being locked, even after a previous fire at the 4-year-old facility. One...
Drought Crushes Local Beef Industry In Hawaii
Oct 5 2012 // National interest in locally grown food and grass-fed beef are catching on in Hawaii, offering ranchers an opportunity to sell cattle in the islands and send fewer of them to states like California and Kansas. But crushing...
$100K Reward in Arson Attack At California Beef Processor
Feb 23 2012 // Fresno County authorities are offering $100,000 for information leading to an arrest in last month’s arson attack California’s biggest beef processor. Sheriff’s officials announced the reward Tuesday. The...
Arson Suspected At California’s Biggest Beef Processor
Jan 10 2012 // Investigators say arson is suspected in a blaze that destroyed 14 big-rig tractors and several trailers at California’s Harris Farms cattle operation, the state’s largest cattle feeder, beef processor and beef...
Wisconsin Meatpacking Plant Fire Claim Settled for $208M
Mar 18 2011 // Patrick Cudahy’s parent company has reached a $208 million settlement with its insurance carriers over a fire that destroyed part of its meatpacking plant in a Milwaukee, Wis., suburb. An earnings report filed by...
