Perdue Farms has become the latest major food processor to report a worker testing positive for coronavirus.
In an announcement March 28, the poultry processor acknowledged that a worker at its plant in Perry, Ga., who had not been to work for a week, tested positive for COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus.
Perdue’s statement said that it is following various safety procedures, including checking internal video footage to identify others to whom the infected worker had been closer than six feet for longer than 10 minutes. Extra sanitation will be conducted in areas accessed by the infected worker during the past 14 days, the company says.
“The affected Associate is in quarantine for 14 days while still receiving pay and no attendance penalty, and may return to work when approved to do so by a healthcare provider,” the statement says.
Other major processors reporting cases of coronavirus exposure include an Anheuser-Busch plant in Cartersville, Ga., a Sanderson Farms plant in McComb, Miss., and a Smithfield Foods plant in Sioux City, S.D.
