Food & Water Watch: Tillamook COVID-19 Outbreak Reveals Dangers to Workers at Corporate Dairy Processors
July 11, 2020
July 11, 2020
WASHINGTON, July 11 -- The Food and Water Watch issued the following statement by Action Senior Attorney Tarah Heinzen:
Food and meat processing facilities across the country have become hotspots of COVID-19 outbreaks. One recent case is the Tillamook-owned Columbia River Processing Plant in Morrow County, Oregon, where 22 cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed among the facility's creamery workers and their families.
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Food and meat processing facilities across the country have become hotspots of COVID-19 outbreaks. One recent case is the Tillamook-owned Columbia River Processing Plant in Morrow County, Oregon, where 22 cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed among the facility's creamery workers and their families.
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"This outbreak underscores th . . .