The two agencies have teamed up to the develop an employee health and food safety checklist for food processing operations during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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.
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 J.M. Smucker Company has appointed Cory Onell as senior vice president to lead the company's retail sales operations and manage customer and brand commercialization.