Food

Denver — Colorado has enacted a law that prohibits employers in the state from deducting from workers’ wages the costs of certain personal protective...

Washington — Chemical facility operators need to ensure their equipment can function within safe operating limits, the Chemical Safety Board says in a new...

Washington — A group of Democratic lawmakers is calling on the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service to abandon efforts to...

Harrisburg, PA — A bill aimed at strengthening protections for meatpacking and food processing workers has advanced out of the Pennsylvania House. H.B. 1923, sponsored...

Washington — The U.S. Department of Agriculture is requesting comment on proposed rules that would remove maximum line speeds at eligible pork-processing facilities and...

Washington — In response to a string of preventable carbon monoxide poisonings, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety Inspection Service has begun equipping inspection workers with wearable CO detectors.

Cincinnati — Stigma attached to jobs that “society deems unfavorable” may leave workers feeling down about themselves, but channeling self-confidence can help curb negative emotions, University of Cincinnati researchers say.

Washington — A House Republican has introduced legislation that would create a structure to allow pork- and poultry-processing plants to operate at faster line speeds – a move opposed by worker safety advocates.

Los Angeles — A food processing plant operator has pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor criminal counts stemming from a nitrogen gas leak that killed two workers at a facility in Vernon, CA.

Washington — Chemicals used during the production of caramel coloring for food products have the capacity to prompt a “hazardous runaway reaction,” the Chemical Safety Board says.