AMS investigations finds Alwatania Meat Corp. engaged in the business of packer buying livestock in commerce for purposes of slaughter without maintaining an adequate bond or bond equivalent.
USDA reaches a consent decision with Bill Chase and his livestock business Happy Valley Livestock LLC for violations of the Packers and Stockyards Act.
Sandusky, Ohio, pork processing facility exposes workers to a release of ammonia gas, leading to two inspections and 43 citations from the US Department of Labor.
AMS investigation reveals Lowell Livestock Auction Inc. tested its livestock scale on Aug. 9, 2022, and continually weighed livestock on it without a test until March 20, 2024.
The department’s Wage and Hour Division seeks people employed by The Exclusive Poultry, Meza Poultry, Valtierra Poultry, Sullon Poultry or Nollus’s Poultry.
Employees of five California poultry processing companies in La Puente and City of Industry may be owed a share of more than $3.8 million in back wages and damages.