In addition to worker safety, the letter points to food safety issues for federal inspectors who will be forced to significantly increase the number of hogs and poultry they review per hour.

The Agriculture Department’s Food Safety and Inspection Service is proposing new rules that would allow faster line speeds at pork and poultry processing facilities. Under proposed rules released ...

Robotics, virtual reality and artificial intelligence could be game changers for poultry processors following promising results in research to integrate those technologies, according to Jeyam Subbiah, ...