NEW YORK, Sept. 17 -- The National Employment Law Project issued the following statement by Debbie Berkowitz, director of the worker safety and health program, in response to the Agriculture Department publishing a final rule that allows the nation's pork plants to run pig slaughter lines without any limits on line speed, and reduces the number of government food safety inspectors on the line reviewing carcasses and meat for signs of disease:

"The U.S. Department of Agriculture . . .

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