Wesley Batista, CEO of JBS Swift & Co., said that both his company and the U.S. beef industry in general will increase exports in 2010. “JBS beef exports will increase
Former Agriprocessors manager Sholom Rubashkin was acquitted by a jury on 67 counts of child labor violations at the Iowa meatpacking plant. However, he still faces sentencing June 22 in
The Maryland Occupational Safety and Health division of the state Department of Labor has imposed a $1 million fine on Seaford, Del.-based Allen Family Foods, stating that the company has
PMMI, the producer and owner of Pack Expo, and the American Meat Institute (AMI), sponsor and producer of the International Meat, Poultry and Seafood Industry Convention and Exposition, announced a
Tyson Foods Inc. and the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) have reached an agreement that could serve as a model for the way some workers in the poultry industry are
A report by the International Panel for Sustainable Resource Management calls for an overhaul of world farming and move vegetarianism. The U.N.-backed report states that food production and fossil fuel
Brazil will send experts to the United States to seek clarification about the testing methods used to test processed meat imports for drug residues. Last week, a shipment of meat
Process Expo/IFT 2010 is the event that protein-industry professionals across the country should attend to find solutions offered by the food industry’s largest collection of processing, packaging and ingredient suppliers.
Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue and Pilgrim’s Pride announced that the company will hire as many as 1,400 local workers and invest approximately $30 million to re-open its chicken processing complex
The recent romaine lettuce recall due to one of the rarer strains of the E. coli bacteria may lead to increased testing in the meat industry. According to the New
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