California's ban on the sale of pork from "downer" pigs, those that were too feeble to walk before being slaughtered, can't be enforced because a less stringent federal law regulates slaughterhouse inspections, the U.S....

The facility was accused of discharging animal hair, blood into the storm-water system.

Federal, state, and local authorities say a Dallas meat-packing company is under criminal investigation for possibly illegally dumping pig blood into a creek that leads to the Trinity River.

A Dallas meat-packing plant cited for allegedly draining pig blood and other contaminants into a nearby creek called the situation "an accident" caused by a "clog in the sewer line."

HealthNow spokeswoman Julie Snyder said a new computer operating system will change the way the health insurer does business. Her quote in a Tuesday story in the Business Today section was incorrectly attributed to Independent Health spokesman Frank Sava.

The meat packing company suspected of dumping thousands of gallons of pig blood into a creek leading to the Trinity River received a letter from the city Tuesday detailing 18 code violations that may create health problems for the general public.

DALLAS - A Dallas meat packing company says a clogged sewage line spilled pig's blood into a creek behind its slaughterhouse and polluted the Trinity River with animal flesh, hair and other body parts.

A Texas environmental group on Wednesday expressed public health concerns over reports of a river of blood flowing from behind a well-known meat-packing plant in Dallas.

Environmental group raises health concerns from photos of alleged pig blood flowing from slaughterhouse

A meat packing company says a pig’s blood spill into a Texas river was accidental.