date:Feb 28, 2013
processing facilities and plants and production facilities across the country.
Mr. Vilsack said only congressional action providing for more flexibility in distributing cuts would alter the need for the U.S.D.A. to furlough part of its food safety workforce. Mr. Vilsack also pointed out the Congress and the Obama administration had additional potentially disruptive fiscal decisions to make in the weeks ahead.
J. Patrick Boyle, chief executive officer of the American Meat Institute, in a Feb.