{"id":543,"date":"2026-05-26T15:57:57","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T19:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/lifescienceslaw\/?p=543"},"modified":"2026-05-26T15:57:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T19:57:58","slug":"doj-proposes-antitrust-settlement-with-data-consultant-requiring-sweeping-changes-to-meat-industry-data-sharing-practices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/lifescienceslaw\/2026\/05\/26\/doj-proposes-antitrust-settlement-with-data-consultant-requiring-sweeping-changes-to-meat-industry-data-sharing-practices\/","title":{"rendered":"DOJ Proposes Antitrust Settlement with Data Consultant, Requiring Sweeping Changes to Meat Industry Data-Sharing Practices"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/driscollrugarte.html\">Driscoll R. Ugarte<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/seanpmcconnell.html\">Sean P. McConnell<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/taylorhertzler.html\">Taylor Hertzler<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On May 7, 2026, the U.S. Department of Justice\u2019s Antitrust Division filed a proposed settlement in the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota to resolve claims against Agri Stats Inc. for unlawful information sharing among the nation\u2019s largest meat processors. The settlement aims to dismantle what the government alleges was a decadeslong practice of exchanging competitively sensitive pricing, output and cost data among rival broiler chicken, pork and turkey processors. Stakeholders across the agricultural supply chain\u2014from poultry integrators and hog producers to livestock feed companies and meat buyers\u2014should take note of this enforcement action, which may signal heightened DOJ scrutiny of data-sharing arrangements in the animal agriculture sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/doj_proposes_antitrust_settlement_data_consultant_requiring_sweeping_changes_meat_industry_0526.html\">Read the full <em>Alert<\/em> on the Duane Morris LLP website<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By \u00a0Driscoll R. Ugarte,\u00a0Sean P. McConnell and\u00a0Taylor Hertzler On May 7, 2026, the U.S. Department of Justice\u2019s Antitrust Division filed a proposed settlement in the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota to resolve claims against Agri Stats Inc. for unlawful information sharing among the nation\u2019s largest meat processors. The settlement aims to dismantle &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/lifescienceslaw\/2026\/05\/26\/doj-proposes-antitrust-settlement-with-data-consultant-requiring-sweeping-changes-to-meat-industry-data-sharing-practices\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;DOJ Proposes Antitrust Settlement with Data Consultant, Requiring Sweeping Changes to Meat Industry Data-Sharing Practices&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[380,338],"ppma_author":[521],"class_list":["post-543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-antitrust","tag-doj"],"authors":[{"term_id":521,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/843ff6e7a8fe5fc92109b47a45f34b6cf0ea499e6e788db23456c838b0ae6747?s=96&d=blank&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/lifescienceslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/lifescienceslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/lifescienceslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/lifescienceslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/lifescienceslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/lifescienceslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/lifescienceslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/lifescienceslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/lifescienceslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/lifescienceslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}