Federal law designed to prevent animal suffering excludes 98% of slaughtered animals and faces chronic enforcement failures ...

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The Wisconsin-based sanitation services company that hired minors to clean slaughterhouses has lost another contract at a Minnesota meatpacker. Quality Pork Processors (QPP) in Austin, Minn., recently ...

Results of a study suggest that Salmonella prevalence in pigs at slaughter in the United Kingdom did not change much from 2013 to 2019. Findings are from an abattoir-based survey ...

DES MOINES (AP) — The federal government has finalized rules for most U.S. pork processing plants that remove limits on the speed of production lines and place more animal inspection and food safety ...

As U.S. pork producers are work to rebuild hog herds, disease pressure proved to be a problem for producers, which could ease potential slaughter issues later this year. Those were the headlines of ...

Since the St. Joseph plant opened in 2006, no other all-new pork slaughter facility has been built in the United States. Now two are in the works. In December, the Clemens Food Group, of Hatfield, Pa.