The U.S. Food Safety and Inspection Service proposed a new inspection system for young chicken and turkey slaughter plants, saying the change resulted from the 2011 regulatory review required of ...

One USDA program is going down to the wire with changes. The Food Service and inspection Service of the USDA has announced that it is extending its modified poultry line speed waivers so a study ...

Water quality could impact the kind of microbial populations in poultry drinking water lines and lead to the buildup of a biofilm that can harbor pathogenic bacteria like Salmonella, according to a ...

Workers on evisceration lines at poultry and swine plants are at increased risk for musculoskeletal disorders, studies released by USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service conclude. But neither ...

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 ...

Charles "Stan" Painter, a federal poultry inspector, suffers from painful reactive arthritis after eating what he believes to be food tainted with salmonella. MCT The U.S. Department of Agriculture is ...

A broiler chicken sips water from a water line in a poultry growing house. A study by researchers with the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station and the Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry ...