Technical Abstract: Food safety is a major issue for the poultry industry as well as the food production industry as a whole. Each year an estimated 76 million Americans become ill from consuming foods contaminated with pathogenic microbes and their toxins. Many interventions, including chemical antimicrobials and the implementation of the HACCP system, have been used in poultry processing operations. These strategies have led to a general decline in the incidence of paratyphoid Salmonella incidence on broiler carcasses. However, there is a lack of reports on intervention strategies that are implemented in the pre-processing stages of broiler production that could, if successful, reduce the pathogen load entering the processing plant. This reduction could allow processing operations to lower costs of operation and may lead to decreased cross-contamination within the processing environment. Litter amendments consisting of various formulations have been proposed as an intervention strategy to decrease the incidence of pathogens entering processing operations from live production.