Mass testing is a positive step. Food companies should embrace it quickly
By Ian Quinn2021-01-21T17:01:00+00:00 In November, Mike Coupe, director of Covid-19 testing at England’s Test and Trace agency, told the Defra war room mass testing was to be launched across the UK. The idea was to tackle the industry’s biggest fear: a workforce crisis that could shut down food production on a large scale. Almost two months later, with the UK since hit by a deadly new wave of the virus and plunged into another lockdown, that rollout is finally beginning. As The Grocer revealed today, after successful trials of a pilot at Tate & Lyle Sugars’ site in east London, tens o...
Source: thegrocer.co.uk