USDA photo by Preston Keres
A U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Inspector shows Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue around the processing floor of the Triumph Foods pork processing facility April 28, 2017. The facility houses 2,800 employees in St. Joseph, Mo. One of three ongoing challenges to USDA’s New Swine Inspection System advances in Californian district court.
In a ruling Feb. 4, a federal court in the United States District Court of Northern District of California allowed a lawsuit contesting the Trump administration’s update on swine slaughter line inspections to proceed. The court denied the government’s motion to dismiss the case, saying that the groups had the legal standing to pursue their claims.
WASHINGTON, DC – The North American Meat Institute (Meat Institute) today released the following statement regarding the U.S. House of Representatives Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis’ request for documents from meat and poultry companies:
“Public health guidance has varied widely around the world and across the United States throughout the pandemic, but more than $1.5 billion in comprehensive protections instituted since the spring successfully cut average case rates for meat and poultry workers five times lower in December 2020 than they were in May, while infections rocketed up by nine times for the general population in the same period,” said Sarah Little, Vice President of Communications for the Meat Institute.