The agency toured Smithfield's Sioux Falls facility and offered several recommendations for company leaders to consider before reopening as COVID-19 continues to pose challenges.

The company is also hosting a webinar with Ecolab to recommend virus environmental monitoring program tips and solutions to remediate the workplace when contamination events occur.

Across the United States, manufacturers of pet food and pet food ingredients have shared operations precautions and supply chain expectations as the COVID-19 situation develops.

The US Food and Drug Administration’s deputy commissioner of food policy and response answered several questions about the condition of the United States food supply during and after COVID-19.

Federal agencies are easing some restrictions on foreign guest workers to ensure an adequate supply of labor to the agriculture industry.

Disconcerted measures taken by federal and state agencies have caused confusion among manufacturers and may be putting line workers at risk, said the Consumer Brands Association.

The company began production at its biorefinery in Shenandoah, Iowa, where it will produce up to 50,000 tons of pet food and feed ingredients.

As the United States issues widespread shelter-in-place orders and designates non-essential versus essential businesses, workers are encountering a patchwork of different quarantine orders, some of which are in conflict.

The company’s Double Tight Wrap systems are designed to tightly wrap bundles of pet food to reduce product shifting and improve handling down the supply chain.

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