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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Maya Yang

Over 100 children illegally employed by US slaughterhouse cleaning firm

Officials tour meat processing facility
PSSI employed children to work overnight shifts at 13 meat processing facilities. Photograph: Josh Funk/AP

More than 100 children have been discovered to be illegally employed by a slaughterhouse cleaning firm across the country, federal authorities said.

The Department of Labor announced that a federal investigation found Wisconsin-based Packers Sanitation Services Inc (PSSI) employed at least 102 children, ranging from 13 to 17 years old, to work overnight shifts at 13 meat processing facilities in eight states.

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