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News Archives
Editorial:
Bad BeefNot since Upton Sinclair's 1906 book "The Jungle" has the American meat market been this shaken. FULL STORY
Humane Society Sues U.S. in
Cattle Case The Humane Society of the United States sued the Agriculture Department on Wednesday for creating a “loophole” that it said is permitting potentially sick cows into the food supply. FULL STORY
Packaged-Food Companies Join
Recall of Meat ProductsThe nation's largest meat recall expanded to include processed foods that used the meat, as two of the world's largest packaged-food companies said yesterday that they are recalling products. FULL STORY
Beef that could kill you!First President Bush cut the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the government’s watchdog over the meatpacking industry, to shreds. Then the remaining Bush appointees at the USDA watered down workplace safety and food inspection regulations... FULL STORY
Pilgrim's Pride heads to
Federal courtLawsuits filed on behalf of workers at Pilgrim's Pride Corp. plants in North Carolina and other states have been consolidated and moved to a federal court. Lawyers are seeking class-action status for the lawsuits, which seek payment for the time workers spent putting on and taking off protective gear. FULL STORY
Some Tainted Meat Used in School
Lunches, U.S. Says Days after the largest beef recall, the Agriculture Department said Thursday that more than a third of the contaminated meat had been used in federal nutrition programs, including school lunches. FULL STORY
The biggest recall everA lot of recalled beef has already been eaten, and so far, thankfully, there have been no reports of illness. But the question Congress needs to ask is how many people need to get sick or die before it starts repairing and modernizing the nation’s food safety system? FULL STORY
CSB, Legislators Push for Combustible
Dust StandardDuring a Feb. 17 briefing, the Chemical Safety Hazard and Investigation Board (CSB) showed evidence of the “widespread and extensive” damage caused by a fatal sugar refinery explosion and stressed that the dangers of combustible dust explosions must be addressed. FULL STORY
The Cruelest Cuts: the human cost
of delivering poultry to your tableIn an industry rife with danger, House of Raeford Farms depicts itself as a safe place to work. But an Observer investigation shows the N.C. poultry giant has masked the extent of injuries behind its plant walls. FULL STORY
USDA's oversight of meat safety
criticizedThe U.S. Department of Agriculture has 7,800 pairs of eyes scrutinizing 6,200 slaughterhouses and food processors across the nation. But in the end, it took an undercover operation by an animal rights group to reveal that beef from ill and abused cattle had entered the human food supply. FULL STORY
A hopeful year for unionsThere is little doubt that American workers need unions. The share of national income devoted to workers’ wages and benefits is at its lowest since the late-1960s, while the share going to profits has surged. FULL STORY
Investigation expands to HormelTwenty-five Hormel Foods employees will be questioned as the state health department expands its investigation into a mysterious illness affecting as many as 13 Quality Pork Processors employees, a health official said this morning. FULL STORY
Beefs about poultry
inspectionsThe USDA wants to change how it inspects poultry, focusing on microbial testing. Critics say the move could pose serious public health risks. The Agriculture Dept. wants to reduce the number of federal inspectors in poultry slaughterhouses, moving to a "risk-based" inspection system. FULL STORY
13th Austin Worker IDed
With Neurological SymptomsAnother meatpacker appears to have developed the neurological symptoms identified in 12 other workers that sparked a nationwide investigation. Unlike the others, however, the worker was not stationed near the high-powered air compressor system used to remove pig brain tissue. FULL STORY
Science and Medicine:
New Disease DiscoveryWashington Post staff writer David Brown, and Michael T. Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, were online Tuesday, Feb. 5 at 11 a.m. ET to discuss a new illness that has surfaced among workers at a pork factory. FULL STORY
A medical mystery unfolds in
MinnesotaIf you have to come down with a strange disease, this town of 23,000 on the wide-open prairie in southeastern Minnesota is a pretty good place to be. The Mayo Clinic, famous for diagnosing exotic ailments, owns the local medical center and shares some staff with it. FULL STORY
Investigators closer to
understanding mystery slaughterhouse illnesses, give it a nameInvestigators are preparing to test pig brains as they struggle to tell what is causing a mysterious nerve illness affecting pork plant workers in Minnesota and Indiana, but so far have found no signs of wider infection, federal health officials said Friday. FULL STORY
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