Amazon offers COVID-19 vaccination assistance; NRF, RILA back mask plan
Leading food retail trade groups FMI-The Food Industry Association (FM) and the National Grocers Association (NGA) today welcomed newly inaugurated U.S. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.
Retail giant Amazon, parent of Whole Foods Market, also extended congratulations to the new presidential administration and offered Biden assistance in achieving one of his top priorities: administering 100 million COVID-19 vaccines to Americans in his first 100 days in office.
“We look forward to working with the newly elected president, vice president and members of Congress on issues impacting the food industry, their customers and communities and ensuring the voice of the food industry is represented authentically on Capitol Hill, to the White House, and throughout the executive branch,” FMI President and CEO Leslie Sarasin said in a statement released Wednesday afternoon, following the inaugu
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The COVID-19 pandemic hit meat processing facilities in the United States suddenly and dramatically. Between April 9 and April 27, more than 4,900 COVID-19 cases were reported among 115 different meat and poultry processing facilities. Rising cases and contamination fears led major processors, such as Smithfield, Va.-based Smithfield Foods, to shut down plants in April. During this period, large retailers like Kroger and Costco implemented meat rationing.
These developments prompted President Donald Trump to invoke the Defense Production Act on April 28, compelling plants to remain open - and brought the resilience of the meat supply chain under scrutiny.