Tyson Fresh Meats, the beef and pork unit of Tyson Foods, will halt production at its beef processing plant in Pasco, Washington temporarily as its employees are undergoing COVID-19 testing. Tyson Foods said that health officials in Walla Walla, Benton, and Franklin Counties will work with its subsidiary to test more than 1,400 plus team […]
US meat processing company Smithfield Foods will close two more of its meat processing plants at Cudahy, Wisconsin and Martin City, Missouri amid the COVID-19 outbreak. The announcement follows the closure of the company’s pork processing plant in Sioux Falls, South Dakota where over 500 employees contracted coronavirus, reported Fox Business. The US meat processing […]
Smithfield Foods said that its pork processing plant in Sioux Falls, South Dakota will stay closed until further notice owing to the prevailing coronavirus outbreak. The pork processing facility is said to be among the largest in the US, representing 4-5% of the pork produced in the country. Supplying around 130 million servings of food […]
Perdue Farms, a US meat processing company, said that an employee at its further processing facility in Perry, Georgia has tested positive for the novel coronavirus. The meat producer said that the affected employee did not come for work for more than seven days. After getting a notification about the development, the company is said […]
Food acquisition news : US meat processing company Tyson Foods has acquired Philadelphia food company Original Philly Holdings which manufactures raw and fully-cooked sandwich steak and cheesesteak appetizer products. Financial terms of Tyson Foods acquisition of Original Philly haven’t been disclosed. Original Philly Holdings consists of two business units: Original Philly Cheesesteak Company, which manufactures […]