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Article content New analysis of independent data for the full month of November show that reported new COVID-19 infection rates amongst meat and poultry workers were more than eight times lower than rates in the general population. According to data from the Food and Environment Reporting Network (data), the meat and poultry sector was reported to have an average of 5.57 new cases per 100,000 workers per day in November. Infection rates amongst meat and poultry workers have declined steeply in ...

On the morning of Sept. 15, 2018, 40 farmworkers at Riggs Brothers Farm stood up out of bed into water. Hurricane Florence made landfall in eastern North Carolina the night before, and they were waiting out the storm in their labor camp in Jones County. They scrambled to grab their belongings and waded out the door into waist-high water before spending hours calling 911 and farmworker advocates. Their boss, farm owner Randy Riggs, never showed up. To rescue them, attorneys and the U.S. Departme...

Dive Brief: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention voted to recommend that frontline essential workers, as well as people age 75 and older, be next in line to receive the coronavirus vaccine. The recommendations were made by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices on Sunday, which voted in favor 13-1. ACIP voted that the roughly 30 million Americans that fall into the frontline essential workers group, including those in food production and manufacturing, should be in Phase 1b...

Photo: RiverNorthPhotography/iStockphoto Karen Perry Stillerman, senior analyst, Food and Environment | December 21, 2020, 2:40 pm EDT This post is a part of a series on Tyson Foods is the nation’s largest (and world’s second largest) meat and poultry producer. It operates 110 processing plants with 121,000 employees in the United States and boasted $42 billion in revenue in 2019, putting the ...

Pandemic Is Starting to Hit North American Meat Plants Again Isis Almeida and Michael Hirtzer, Bloomberg News Signage is displayed outside the Cargill Inc. meat plant in Chambly, Quebec, Canada, on Monday, May 11, 2020. The case-ready facility for beef, pork, chicken and sausage has shut down as the company is “concerned about the number of cases in the community and among our employees,” according to a May 9 statement. Photographer: Christinne Muschi/Bloom...

The Straits Times Coronavirus pandemic is starting to hit North American meat plants again Cargill Inc has temporarily idled one of its beef plants in Canada after some employees tested positive.PHOTO: REUTERS PublishedDec 18, 2020, 10:30 am SGT https://str.sg/JaHL They can read the article in full after signing up for a free account. Share link: Or share via: Sign up or log in to read this article in full Sign up All done! This article is now fully available for you Read now Get unlimited acce...

By 12/17/2020 The biggest U.S. meat processor, Tyson Foods, said on Wednesday that it had fired seven management employees at its hog slaughter plant in Waterloo, Iowa, following allegations that plant manager Tom Hart had organized a betting pool over how many of the plant’s employees would become ill with COVID-19. The dismissals resulted from an outside investigation, financed by Tyson, into the allegations, which were part of a lawsuit filed by the family of a Waterloo wor...

Dive Brief: New York City Comptroller Scott M. Stringer is calling for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to investigate Tyson Foods for making misleading disclosures to investors by "flagrantly misrepresenting its poor pandemic response." Stringer asked for the probe in a letter sent to the SEC Tuesday.  As comptroller, Stringer is investment advisor and a trustee of the five New York City Retirement Systems, which are substantial long-term Tyson shareholders. He said the companys ...

Share it For months, food companies and trade groups have been sending letters and lobbying state and federal officials to secure vaccine prioritization for food workers in manufacturing plants.  "Worker absenteeism remains a concern in manufacturing facilities, posing a threat to the maintenance of consistent inventories of life-sustaining products," Michael Gruber, vice president of regulatory and government affairs at the Consumer Brands Association, wrote in a letter to the Centers for Di...

/ Meatpacking plants were among the first coronavirus hot spots in Missouri. Across the country, at least 45,000 workers in these plants have tested positive for the coronavirus, according to the Food and Environment Reporting Network. More than 200 have died. Annessoir Annelus — a refugee and pillar of the Haitian community — was one of them. For the 27 years that he lived in the Kansas City area, Annelus never lost his connection to his home country, Haiti. And he passed that co...