Food Safety News Sun 7/12/2020

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Food Safety News
Sun 7/12/2020 4:01 AM

Email not displaying properly? View it in your browser. Letter from the Editor: Infections and deaths from COVID-19 in meat, poultry industries By Dan Flynn on Jul 12, 2020 12:05 am Opinion When Saul Sanchez, a 78-year old “green hat” supervisor at the JBS beef plant in Greeley, CO, died from COVID-19 this past April 7, nobody was thinking he might be the first of nearly 100 others in the industry to succumb to the virus. Sanchez worked at the Greeley beef plant for more than... Continue Reading Project to look at 2019 Spanish Listeria outbreak By Joe Whitworth on Jul 12, 2020 12:01 am Andalusian authorities have allocated €100,000 (U.S. $113,000) for research to learn from the region’s Listeria outbreak in 2019. The project will focus on the epidemiological, microbiological and clinical analysis of the listeriosis outbreak, according to the Ministry of Health and Families in Andalusia. The outbreak from “La Mecha” brand chilled roasted pork produced by Magrudis affected... Continue Reading