Washington — Seeking to “best assess” the impact of increased line speeds on worker safety in poultry-processing plants, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety Inspection Service plans to ...

The Agriculture Department’s Food Safety and Inspection Service is proposing new rules that would allow faster line speeds at pork and poultry processing facilities. Under proposed rules released ...

Four years after the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota struck down USDA’s rule eliminating line speed limits in pork and poultry plants, Republican Rep. Brad Finstad has introduced ...

Washington — A House Republican has introduced legislation that would create a structure to allow pork- and poultry-processing plants to operate at faster line speeds – a move opposed by worker safety ...

Data released on January 10 from a USDA report, Poultry Processing Line Speed Evaluation Study (PULSE), found that 81% of workers were at increased risk of musculoskeletal disorders across all ...

OMAHA (DTN) -- Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins on Monday announced USDA will extend waivers to allow faster line speeds at pork and poultry industry, describing the actions as efforts to reduce ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS) has issued two proposed rules that would increase allowable line speeds in poultry and swine slaughter operations. The ...

Serious injuries from working in poultry processing plants have decreased in the past 10 years, but workers are still at a high risk for musculoskeletal disorders from repetitive motions. A U.S.