11.   Meat packers, poultry processors, garment workers, checkout clerks and auto workers are among the most likely to be injured as a result of labor-intensive tasks.

12.   Other smaller poultry processors are also supportive of the new rules.

13.   Perdue, the third largest poultry processor, is a long-time supporter of fresh labeling rules.

14.   Shady Brook Farms of Harrisonburg, Va., is the only poultry processor using the newly approved anti-microbial rinse, trisodium phosphate.

15.   Since then, the company has become the fourth-largest poultry processor after ConAgra Inc. and closely held Perdue Farms Inc.

16.   Soybean price increases have been limited since last month as poultry processors trimmed flocks and as Brazil harvests a new crop of soybeans.

17.   That is because poultry processors typically control production at all levels, from the egg all the way to the plastic-wrapped package of drumsticks.

18.   The National Broiler Council, which represents poultry processors, said its members have their safety plans ready.

19.   The transaction will combine two of the four largest poultry processors in the nation.

20.   Tyson Foods Inc., the Springdale, Arkansas-based poultry processor, could be the biggest beneficiary from a steady increase in exports.