The United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW) – the largest union representing workers in the food processing and retailing industries – is calling on the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to prioritize essential workers in grocery, meatpacking, and food processing for early COVID-19 vaccine access.

Three Latin American women share their experience working in the poultry industry and explain how times have changed and what to do in the future to have more women in the industry.

Collaborative robotic technology could help future-proof poultry processing against COVID-19 by minimizing the number of repetitive tasks required to be performed manually by workers.

Exoskeleton technology could help minimize workplace injuries and worker fatigue at poultry processing plants.

The COVID-19 pandemic makes sanitation of poultry facilities even more crucial, requiring increased frequency of cleanings in production and employee common areas for both food and employee safety.

A new automated, mobile white blood cell differential test could identify meat processing plant workers likely to test positive for COVID-19.

A new wearable digital technology has already shown to help meat and poultry plant workers become aware of their potentially hazardous movements that could cause injuries. But the technology could also have additional benefits to workers on poultry farms and feed mills.

The former President of Opal Foods and a current consultant in the agriculture industry, speaks about what it was like managing approximately 400 employees and almost 10 million layers, spread among three different states during a pandemic.

At least one building was destroyed but no hens were lost in an egg farm fire that occurred around 3:30 a.m. on October 3 near Palmyra, Wisconsin.

COVID-19 continues to be an issue of major concern for poultry processing. Leading integrators are making massive shifts in how they do business in order to protect themselves from the virus.

An advanced robotic system designed to perform butterfly and shoulder cuts was successful in its first poultry processing plant trials.

Wearable technology has the potential to continuous monitor and predict ergonomic and fatigue-related concerns in poultry processing workers, keeping employees safe and improving worker retention.