[7] The lawsuit alleged that workers were “subjected to touching and sexually suggestive comments, were hit, were charged money for normal everyday work activities” among other things.

[9] On August 28, 2007, federal authorities raided a chicken processing plant operated by Koch Foods in Fairfield, Ohio and detained 161 undocumented workers.

According to a 2010 ICE press release, the company cooperated and began using E-Verify, an Internet-based system that allows an employer to verify a person's work eligibility.

[10][11][12] On August 7, 2019, federal authorities raided seven chicken processing plants operated by Koch Foods and four other companies in Mississippi and detained 680 undocumented workers.

The exact number arrested at the Koch facilities has not been specified but authorities used five buses to transfer detainees from the plant to a hangar at a nearby airbase for processing.

[17] On May, 19, 2021, Norman W. Fries, Inc (Claxton Poultry Farms), and on July 28, 2021 Koch Foods and four executives were indicted by a federal grand jury of Conspiracy to Restrain Trade; the Department of Justice alleged that Koch Foods and Norman W. Fries were conspiring to fix the price of broiler chicken to suppress and eliminate competition.