SANDUSKY - A Sandusky pork processing facility exposed workers to a release of ammonia gas, leading the U.S. Department of Labor to open two inspections and issue 43 violations of federal regulations.

The answer has to do with the way meat recalls are made, a procedure that is now under review by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Flaws in the process are highlighted by the ConAgra case -- a ...

Talk to any farmer who used to raise pigs, and they’ll more than likely tell you it all changed in 1998. That’s the year that draws memories of agony and financial pain for many. Hog margins bled red, ...

SANDUSKY, Ohio — Sandusky pork processing facility J.H. Routh Packing Co. was cited for 43 safety violations after federal inspections were recently conducted. Those violations have led to proposed ...

A federal judge on Friday upheld a USDA program for pork processing plants that gives employees more of a role in the inspection process. In rejecting arguments by the plaintiffs, including Center for ...

Larry Alliger stands in one of his finishing barns for hogs at his farm near Gowrie, Iowa. He now has to transport his hogs twice as far, since the closure of a pork processing plant in Perry, Iowa.

As the pork and poultry industries cheer deregulation that will let them permanently increase the speed of production lines at slaughterhouses, workers say they’re already moving too fast. “We don’t ...

A nearly 50-year-old pork-processing plant in Charlotte is closing, and leaving more than 100 people without jobs if they want to stay in the region. Smithfield Foods, a Virginia-based pork producer ...

OMAHA, Neb. (Nebraska Examiner) - Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen is one of about 200 farmer-owners of a pork processing plant in Fremont, Neb., that was awarded a $25 million federal grant to help add a ...

TYLER, Texas (KLTV) - Winnsboro ISD has a meat facility that is currently being built across from the football field. Superintendent Dave Wilcox says that the school is already being contacted by ...