The Agriculture Department’s Food Safety and Inspection Service is proposing new rules that would allow faster line speeds at ...

Agriculture secretary says proposed changes will remove bottlenecks, lower production costs and create a more stable food ...

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.

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 would allow ...

The proposals would remove worker safety attestations that fall outside USDA’s statutory authority, according to the USDA.

President Joe Biden rejected a proposal that would have ramped up production at U.S. poultry plants by 25%. The executive action puts a stop to the poultry processing speed increase rule that the ...

Magaly Licolli of Venceremos said sped up processing lines could not only make things more dangerous for the workers, but consumers as well.

Serious injuries from working in poultry processing plants have decreased in the past 10 years, but workers are still at a high risk for musculoskeletal disorders from repetitive motions. A U.S.