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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. Then all other essential workers, such as those in foodservice and construction, should be in Phas...

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/Bloomberg , Bloomberg (Bloomberg) -- Meat packers across North America are bracin...

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 access to all stories at $0.99/month for the first 3 months. Get unlimited access to all stories at $0.9...

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 worker who died of the disease. More than 1,000 employees, about a third of the workforce at the plant...

Cargill to idle Canadian meat plant after COVID cases Isis Almeida and Marcy Nicholson, 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/Bloomberg , Bloomberg Cargill Inc. is temporarily shutting down its beef processing plan...