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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Hurricane Helene shut at least two poultry plants in Georgia and North Carolina and twisted cotton crops in South Carolina in blows to U.S. food and fiber production, company ...
Tyson Foods will shut down its Columbia plant and lay off more than 200 employees as part of a cost-cutting decision the company said was difficult but necessary.
CHICAGO (Reuters) -Tyson Foods Inc will close two U.S. chicken plants with almost 1,700 employees on May 12, the company said on Tuesday. The closures show the biggest U.S. meat company by sales ...
The 2021 Georgia poultry plant accident was an industrial disaster that occurred on January 28, 2021, in Gainesville, Georgia, United States. Six people were killed by asphyxiation [ 1 ] and at least ten were injured when a liquid nitrogen leak occurred inside a poultry processing plant owned by Foundation Food Group.
In April 2020, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) relaxed protections at 15 poultry plants by allowing an increase in poultry production speeds, which the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union said would lead to more crowded working conditions and greater risk of transmitting COVID-19.
During the Covid-19 outbreak, Mountaire was ordered to continue production along with other food companies deemed essential by the White House. [7] The company had a "coronavirus task force" that was created for safety before finding any cases, [8] in April and May 2020 the company's Selbyville, Delaware plant had an unverified outbreak of COVID-19.
Local immigration advocates say agents from Homeland Security Investigations and the FBI surrounded the plant in the early evening of Oct. 4 and shut down traffic into and out of the plant.
Kevin's Law (as referred to in Representative Anna Eshoo's introduction of the law in 2005 and in the 2008 documentary Food, Inc.; formally known as the Meat and Poultry Pathogen Reduction and Enforcement Act of 2003, H.R. 2203) was proposed legislation that would have given the United States Department of Agriculture the power to close down plants that produce contaminated meat.