Smithfield Foods plans to reopen its large hog slaughterhouse in Monmouth, Ill.
The facility, which employs 1,700 people and accounts for 3% of U.S. pork products, was among three Illinois pork processing plants that closed last week. The company had previously said a “small portion” of its Monmouth employees had tested positive for COVID-19.The company’s meat processing plant in St. Charles, Ill., remains closed a week after the Kane County Health Department ordered its temporary shutdown. The county on Friday said a worker at the plant died.
Smithfield, the world’s largest pork producer, has agreed to pay to have employees at the facility tested for COVID-19, the county said.
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