Source: Sam Bloch, THE COUNTER, 8/20/20

By now, the basic tenets of Covid-19 safety are known. Implementing them in a food processing facility mandated to uphold food safety standards requires a whole other set of safeguards. On Wednesday, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which regulates 77 percent of our national food supply, released a worker safety checklist for farms and food processors to follow during the Covid-19 pandemic.  The move was unusual because worker safety doesn’t fall under FDA’s purview. “Their mandate is to protect the food, not the people,” said Ben Chapman, a food safety specialist at North Carolina State University.

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