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The president of the North Carolina NAACP was turned away recently when he tried to visit the Smithfield Foods Inc. hog slaughterhouse in Tar Heel, the Associated Press reports. The

Reuters reports that U.S. hog and pork producer Smithfield Foods Inc. recently said China has shown more interest in buying its pork, which probably was the reason the company''s

Groupe Danone SA, the maker of Dannon yogurt and Evian waters, is strengthening its baby food business with a bid Monday to buy Royal Numico NV for $16.8 billion, the

Sixteen employees of the world''s largest hog slaughterhouse have filed a complaint with the U.S. Labor Department about conditions in the livestock department at Smithfield Packing Co., the Associated Press

The Associated Press reports that a meat supplier has greatly expanded a ground beef recall, which now includes about 5.7 million pounds of fresh and frozen meat that may be

According to the Associated Press, Moyer Packing Co. has been fined $61,000 for air quality violations at its Franconia Township rendering plant in Pennsylvania last year, the state Department of

Reuters reports that Tyson Foods Inc., the world''s largest chicken, beef and pork processor, has said it would soon resume beef exports to South Korea, whose market has been closed

Merck & Co. said that U.S. regulators have rejected its arthritis drug Arcoxia, the drugmaker''s follow-up to Vioxx, informing the company it cannot be approved without new supportive data, according

The Associated Press reports that agribusiness powerhouse Cargill’s third-quarter earnings rose 49 percent on improving operations and tax savings. The privately held maker of food ingredients and other agricultural products

Japan ordered imports halted from a major meat plant in Kansas last Friday after a beef shipment arrived without proper papers, the third American meatpacker that''s had some exports to