WASHINGTON – The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) on Wednesday released new directives on revised emergency procedures, significant incident response and sanitation verification review. Directive 5420.4, revision 5,
SALISBURY, Md. – Perdue Farms announced Wednesday that it will extend the hours for its toll-free consumer hotline for Thanksgiving week. The hotline, at (800) 473-7383, offers shopping and
DOWNERS GROVE, Ill. – Sara Lee Corp. on Wednesday announced it is leaving the kosher meat business and shutting the doors to its kosher plant in Chicago. The company
PITTSBURG, Texas – Pilgrim’s Pride Corp. announced Thursday it plans to cut about 335 jobs by the end of November. The move is the latest step by the chicken
DES MOINES, Iowa – Agriprocessors Inc’s meatpacking plant shut down on Wednesday, though the company says it will reopen. Media reports said that Agriprocessors’s plant in Postville, Iowa suspended
LEWISBURG, W. Va. – Poultry grower Aviagen Inc. said Wednesday that it will investigate a video that appears to show abuse of turkeys at the company’s West Virginia farms.
WASHINGTON – The American Meat Institute (AMI) and other organizations representing the livestock sector, watchdog groups, environmentalists, hunger groups, tax groups and retailers have called on the new administration
MIAMI – Burger King Corp. on Wednesday announced that it is limited the sodium in all Kids Meals advertised to children under 12 years old. "We are proud to
WASHINGTON – Nestlé Prepared Foods Co. of Springville, Utah is recalling about 879,565 pounds of frozen chicken meals because they may contain small plastic pieces, the Food Safety and
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