Carmen Rottenberg will be the Acting Deputy Under Secretary for Food Safety; Paul Kiecker will be the Acting Administrator.

Modernization work totaling $7 million has commenced at Cargill Protein’s Harrisonburg, Va., turkey hatchery.

Project will create more than 200 new jobs with full benefits in Union City, Tennessee.

He is retiring from the industry after 39 years of service.

“Safeguard” mechanism will increase tariff rate on U.S. beef temporarily to 50%.

The tariff would affect only exporters from countries, including the United States, which do not have free trade agreements with Japan currently in force.

McCall worked at Farmland Foods, Armour and Fiorucci Foods and served as a meat industry consultant.