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On January 9, 1992, United States Secretary of Labor Lynn Martin set a deadline of 90 days for North Carolina state officials to improve enforcement of job safety and health regulations, or federal agencies would take over. [126] The North Carolina General Assembly passed 14 new worker safety laws as a result, including whistleblower protections.
Mountaire Farms facility in Siler City, North Carolina. In 1977, Mountaire Farms expanded operations to Delaware when it purchased H&H Poultry in Selbyville. [5] The company acquired Piedmont Poultry in Lumber Bridge, North Carolina in 1996. In 2000, Mountaire Farms purchased operations from Townsends, including Central Grain Facilities, in ...
North Carolina's planning and development regulations for cities had been consolidated into Article 19 of General Statutes Chapter 160A in 1971. [1] The regulations for counties were consolidated into Article 18 of Chapter 153A in 1973. [1] In the decades that followed, hundreds of amendments were added to these chapters without a consistent ...
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Within the meat production industry, "meatpacking" is defined as "all manufacturing of meat products including the processing of animals." [1] This includes production of beef, pork, poultry, and fish. [1] The scope of the American meat production industry is large; it slaughters and processes over 10 billion animals per year. [4]
The Poultry Products Inspection Act of 1957 (P.L. 85–172, as amended) requires the United States Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) to inspect all domesticated birds when slaughtered and processed into products for human consumption.
A reflection: The journalist who edited the N&O’s Pulitzer Prize reporting on the NC hog industry says revealing who holds power is vital.
Worker deaths at poultry processing plants are relatively rare: Federal fatality data show that there were 14 poultry processing deaths nationwide in 2021 and eight in 2022.