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 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.

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 ...

January 13, 2025 – USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service released the results of a pair of third-party studies commissioned in 2022 to evaluate the impact of faster line speeds at poultry and pork ...

USDA has decided to extend a series of trial projects testing higher line speeds in six pork processing plants. USDA initiated the trials after a federal court blocked the higher speeds from being a ...

CHICAGO, March 14 (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Agriculture allowed three pork plants to increase processing line speeds this month as part of a trial program, reviving a policy that started ...

The self-distancing and quarantine protocols put in place to slow the spread of COVID-19 have reduced economic growth, shuttered consumers in their homes and changed the way Americans purchase and ...

HATFIELD, Pa. (WHTM) — The Clemons Food Group recently confirmed that it is investing approximately $130 million towards renovating and expanding its pork processing plant in Montgomery County, ...