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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.
Georgia produces the most chicken of any state in the U.S., with 1.3 billion chickens produced in 2022, according to World Population Review, based on USDA statistics.As of 2022, the industry ...
A virus deadly to birds is spreading through the U.S., and experts in Georgia are strategizing to protect the state's important poultry industry. Georgia bird and poultry experts work to prevent ...
Bird flu has been detected in a commercial poultry flock in Georgia for the first time since the current outbreak began in 2022, officials say. ... and the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal ...
ATLANTA (AP) — For the first time since the 2022 countrywide outbreak, bird flu hit a poultry producer in Georgia, the nation's top state for chicken production. The state Department of Agriculture announced Friday that the agency has detected a case of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza at a commercial poultry producer in Elbert County ...
Talmadge-Aiken plants (Federal-State Cooperative Inspection Plants) are meat and poultry plants in the United States in which state agency inspectors perform federal safety inspections. This arrangement was established under the Talmadge-Aiken Act of 1962, named after US Senators Herman Talmadge and George Aiken .
The Georgia plant resumed operations after creating an on-site fire brigade, but before installing new fire suppression systems, without objection from OSHA. [77] Other food processing plants across the South also decided to review their fire precautions. [ 80 ]
Federal workplace safety officials are proposing nearly $1 million in fines against four companies following a January liquid nitrogen leak that killed six workers at a Georgia poultry processing ...