Q&AZ: Does my meat come from a plant where there's been a COVID-19 outbreak?

Is meat from a plant that has had cases of COVID-19 among workers safe to consume? Can you tell if meat you are purchasing comes from one of these affected plants?

Is it safe to consume meat from a plant that has had cases of COVID-19 among workers? Since COVID-19 has not been shown to be transmissible through food, meat and poultry from the meat plants are safe for consumption. Although coronavirus outbreaks in the facilities are not affecting food safety, they're affecting the supply.

In this story published May 5, 2020, on KJZZ:

You start accumulating that over a week’s time, and we’re rapidly approaching approximately a million pigs a week that are not being slaughtered and put into the supply chain.

– Agricultural economist Mark Manfredo, professor and director of the Morrison School of Agribusiness