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| Chinese-owned Smithfield Foods shutters two more meat processing plants in Missouri and Wisconsin after massive coronavirus outbreak closed South Dakota factory, threatening the American food supply chain |
| 2020-04-16 |
Daily Mail, where America gets its news]- Smithfield Foods on Wednesday closed two more plants in Missouri and Wisconsin
- Plant in South Dakota closed after becoming the biggest single source of infection in the United States
- CEO warns that packing plants are a 'bottleneck' in the US food supply chain
- Closures threaten to raise the price of pork or cause temporary shortages
- Smithfield was purchased by Chinese meat packing giant WH Group in 2013
- FDA says there is no evidence of virus transmission through food or packaging
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