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New Trump rules will make meat processing a lot deadlier

The country’s poultry and swine processing plants, already incredibly dangerous workplaces, are poised to get a green light from the Trump administration to vastly speed up the work. In February, the ...
Swine processing facilities operating under a trial of increased line speeds will have an additional 90 days to run at the faster limits as USDA continues to collect and submit data on the impact to ...
The second Trump Administration has implemented so many changes to regulatory decision-making that keeping up can be ...
USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service has extended until Nov. 30 the trial period for a study on the impact line speeds have on workers at swine processing facilities. After a March 2021 court ...
June has brought the release of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (USDA’s FSIS) updated Guideline for Controlling Salmonella in Swine Slaughter and Pork ...
A recent study from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has highlighted worker safety concerns in poultry and swine processing plants. Now OSHA’s Acting Labor Secretary Julie Su has responded to ...