That outbreak and others prompted the U.S. Department of Agriculture to announce a plan in December to increase testing for salmonella at poultry processing plants.

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The poultry processing giant is regulated by the Agriculture Department.

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Nearly 3, 000 jobs were safeguarded at three poultry and meat processing plants in Wales after a buyout by a meat suppliers last week.

BBC: Wales

Guidelines issued Wednesday by the national health agency identify butchers, breeders and sellers of poultry, and those in the meat processing industry as at higher risk.

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In England, it has poultry plants in Essex and Suffolk and red meat processing plants in Cornwall.

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To this end, the PLP emphasise training in, for example, literacy (mathematics, English, Urdu), health, agriculture (crop, fish, poultry and livestock production), life skills (peace-building, conflict management and resolution), food processing and preservation and dressmaking.

UNESCO: National Literacy Programme (NLP)