11.   Most U.S. poultry plants use chlorinated water, and companies say it would be expensive and unnecessary to switch, since the amount of chlorine used is minute.

12.   Newer poultry plants incorporate their own modern water-treatment facilities.

13.   Perdue Farms reduced injuries at its poultry plants by improving work conditions.

14.   Poultry plants were exempt, and only later this year will they have to begin labeling ground muscle and bone as mechanically separated.

15.   Salmonella usually reaches consumers after fecal material containing the germ contaminates chicken in poultry processing plants.

16.   The industry and the senators further argued that the poultry plants were not given proper notice that workers should be compensated for donning and doffing time.

17.   The Ozunas had come north from the Rio Grande valley in Texas, drawn by the promise of jobs at the local poultry processing plant.

18.   Thousands of inspectors stationed in meat packing houses and poultry plants around the nation visually inspected every carcass and enforced detailed regulations on cleanliness.

19.   Two ConAgra Inc., poultry plants in Batesville, Arkansas, and Clinton, Arkansas, also suspended operations but were to open today, the Associated Press said.

20.   Turnover is high in poultry plants, Linder said, making sustained organizing difficult.