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 ...

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.

Federal investigators found nearly a dozen children to be working dangerous, overnight shifts at Seaboard Triumph Foods' pork processing plant in Sioux City, Iowa, the Department of Labor announced.

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 ...

CHICAGO, Nov 2 (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Agriculture will direct $73 million in grants to small- and medium-sized meat and poultry processors to expand their capacity and deliver more funds ...

The Minnesota Department of Health said this morning that 11 people who work at Quality Pork Processors Inc. in Austin have become ill during the past year with neurological symptoms. The workers, two ...