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Triumph Foods failed to protect its workers in the critical months leading up to a COVID-19 outbreak at its giant pork plant in St. Joseph, Missouri, last year, safety inspectors found.
At least 600 workers tested positive for the coronavirus and four have died. But the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, which conducted the inspection, did not fine the company.
The inspectors’ conclusions are in an inspection summary obtained by the Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting and USA TODAY through a Freedom of Information Act request. The document confirms much of what the news outlets reported in November: In March and April 2020, the company failed to take necessary steps to protect workers.
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In order to clearly differentiate from conventionally produced wild or farmed seafood products, an appropriate qualifier [ie. ‘cell-cultured’]
should be used to denote seafood products that are produced using the method of cell cultured technology.
The qualifier should be science-based, accurate, and informed by peer-reviewed, published consumer studies.
Such products should also be subject to allergen labeling, “
to put those with seafood allergies on notice that the same risks apply as with conventional seafood,” they said.
Memphis Meats: ‘It would simply be misleading for labeling to indicate that cell-cultured products are made primarily from plants’
In a separate submission filed with the FDA, AMPS Innovation member