Bird flu has infected three more people from Washington state after they were exposed to poultry that tested positive for the virus, according to health authorities in Washington and in Oregon, where the human cases were identified.
Investigators with the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration found ADM failed to inspect or test critical safety systems in the explosion that injured three workers.
The investigation, authorized on Sept. 2, 2021, focuses on repair restrictions manufacturers place on hardware or software, often referred to by regulators as impeding customers’ “right to repair” the goods they purchase.
Hurricane Helene shut at least two poultry plants in Georgia and North Carolina and twisted cotton crops in South Carolina in blows to U.S. food and fiber production.
Damage estimated between $95 billion and $110 billion. Farmers in South Georgia were assessing the damage to the state’s $1 billion cotton crop and $400 million pecan crop now in harvest season.
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission on Friday approved the first guidelines for the trading of voluntary carbon credit derivative contracts in the country.
Hormel Foods cut its annual sales forecast, hurt by lower commodity prices and a production disruption at its Planters brand manufacturing facility in Virginia.
