WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Agriculture is poised to finalize major adjustments to the poultry slaughter-inspection process.
The proposed rule would allow companies to speed up production lines from a maximum of 140 birds per minute with four inspectors on the line to 175 birds per minute with just one inspector on the line. It also would cut hundreds of federal inspector jobs and turn over much
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