Meat and poultry processors are under increasing pressure to balance throughput, yield and cut quality as product variability ...

USDA has launched Phase Four of the Meat and Poultry Processing Expansion Program to strengthen local processing capacity and support rural producers.

Salmonella is a common source of food poisoning that leads to potentially life-threatening illnesses, widespread food recalls ...

There are many arguments, pro and con, about efforts of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) to renovate its meat processing inspection process. In my last ...

Researchers have assessed the impact of processing on the presence and transfer of antimicrobial resistant bacteria on chicken meat. Findings showed that while Campylobacter and E. coli were present ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Thursday that it is overhauling poultry processing inspections for the first time in nearly 60 years, enacting a plan that will cut the number of ...

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 ...

In virtually all markets, it is a legal requirement to chill carcasses immediately after evisceration to prevent the growth of harmful pathogens. The temperature to which products must be cooled ...

Amirreza Davar, left, is a mechanical engineering graduate student in the Departments of Biological and Agricultural Engineering and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Arkansas. He designed ...

Nearly 1 million chickens and turkeys are unintentionally boiled alive each year in U.S. slaughterhouses, often because fast-moving lines fail to kill the birds before they are dropped into scalding ...

The Oregon House passed a poultry bill Thursday, marking another move aimed at bolstering small farms clustered in the Willamette Valley and scattered across the state. , approved 58-2, would create ...

GOBBLERS GONNA GOBBLE: Hickory Nut Gap Farm in Fairview is raising 450 turkeys in preparation for the Thanksgiving holiday. Photo courtesy of Hickory Nut Gap Farm Fall is always busy on Western North ...