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Capital packers detected the bacteria Listeria monocytogenes on the sleeve of one of its employees and notified the Canadian Food Inspection Agency.

Global Culinary Investments, a Spring, Texas establishment, is recalling approximately 1,331 pounds of chicken empanadas because they contain monosodium glutamate (MSG), which is not declared on the label

Judge Lawrence L. Piersol recused himself from the case that is being heard in U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota.

For the year ended October 28, 2012, net earnings were $500.1 million, up 5 percent from net earnings of $474.2 million last year.

Stanley's Market Brands, LLC, a Toledo, Ohio establishment, is recalling approximately 16,100 pounds of kielbasa products because they may contain foreign materials

Tyson Foods reported fourth-quarter earnings that came in ahead of estimates, as well as a rosier forecast for 2013.

The former owners of Hallmark Meat Packing Co. will pay $317,000 to settle a landmark federal fraud lawsuit over animal cruelty.

A pair of tom turkeys hatched and raised in Rockingham County by Cargill are heading to the nation’s capitol as the 2012 National Thanksgiving Turkeys that will be pardoned by President Obama in a November 21 White House ceremony.

The union representing employees at the XL Foods facility in Brooks, Alberta, confirmed that the facility is shipping beef for the first time since a widespread E. coli outbreak led to the plant’s closure in September.

A coalition of livestock, poultry and dairy organizations expressed extreme disappointment with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s denial in the wake of the worst drought in more than half a century of requests that it waive a federal law that requires corn to be turned into ethanol for gasoline.