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19.09.18

Global Superbugs

Critical antibiotics still used on US farm animals despite superbug crisis

Tests on thousands of meat samples show that farm animals are still being dosed with powerful antibiotics classified as “critically important” to human health.

05.09.18

Environment

Contaminated meat: Tests find supermarket products contain DNA from animals not on the label

Regulators found 135 cases where products labelled as pork, beef or lamb contained unspecified meats, often a composite of multiple species.

29.07.18

Environment

Revealed: Shocking safety record of UK meat plants

Six years of records from abattoirs and meat processing plants reveal thousands of accidents to staff

05.07.18

Environment

Two amputations a week: the high cost of working in a US meat plant

There are 17 serious accidents a month in US meat plants

03.07.18

Environment

Megafarms are “the way that we’re going to feed the country”

The head of British Poultry Council says scaling up production in bigger plants is good for consumers and poultry alike

19.06.18

Global Superbugs

The story behind the mom, the chicken and the superbug threat

Our investigation into lobbying in the pharmaceutical industry

04.06.18

Environment

How some British supermarkets are using intensive beef farms for some of their products

The Bureau looks at how beef in the UK is marketed - and actually reared by some supermarket suppliers

04.06.18

Environment

In video: How intensive beef-lot style farming is coming to the UK

How and why intensive beef farming is spreading throughout the UK

30.05.18

Environment

In photos: inside a grass-fed farm

As intensive farming grows, some farmers are bucking the trend. Here's the experience of one.

30.05.18

Environment

Intensive meat and fish farming poses high risks says investors' group

Investors' group rankings of big meat and fish companies on risk issues

29.05.18

Environment

Revealed: industrial-scale beef farming comes to the UK

A Bureau investigation reveals that beef farming is moving away from pasture to fattening pens

30.03.18

Environment

Battle for the future of Parma ham

We investigated the industrial pig farming methods used in Parma ham production

22.02.18

Environment

Fear of national meat scandal - thousands of food safety breaches revealed

Many meat processing plants and cold storage facilities in the UK are failing hygiene and food safety regulations

21.02.18

Environment

Dirty US meat could flood into UK after a Brexit trade deal

Unpublished American inspection reports show endemic issues with hygiene in US meat plants

22.01.18

Environment

Why a million chickens are dying on the way to the abattoir

Over a million chickens, turkeys, ducks and geese a year are dying on their way to the abattoir, our investigation finds

19.09.17

Environment

Blowing the whistle on the meat industry

Contaminated meat risk, whistleblower says, is due to poor hygiene and regulation in Britain's abattoirs

21.08.17

Environment

Dirty business: The livestock farms polluting the UK

Manure pouring into waterways and carcasses dumped in woodlands - farms are releasing harmful pollution once a week on average, the Bureau has found.

11.08.17

Environment

New animal cruelty figures show need for cameras

New data shows increase in number of times animals suffer needlessly before slaughter as the government announces plans to put cameras in abattoirs.

17.07.17

Environment

Intensive farming in the UK, by numbers

The number of intensive farms in the UK has risen by a quarter with many so big they fit the definition of a US mega-farm.

17.07.17

Environment

The rise of the "megafarm": How British meat is made

A major Bureau investigation reveals the changing face of farming in the UK.

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