Smithfield Meatpacking shutdown one of their plants here in the swamp a few years ago blaming FDA regulations. I tend to think that it had a lot more to do with the fact that they had recently lost their fight against the union that had just successfully organized their workers. But, it coulda been both, actually. They were constantly running afoul of food safety inspectors and their own employees.
Anyhow, I know a few guys that worked there for a while and said the place was pretty much a disgusting shithole. And management was just a bunch of incompetent good ol' boy assholes who blamed everyone but themselves for all of their troubles.
Sounds about right. I've worked in places like that before.
Dave