Another outbreak of COVID-19 has been reported at the 2 Sisters Food Group poultry plant in Coupar Angus, Scotland.
Operations at the plant were temporarily suspended in August 2020 after four workers at the plant tested positive for the coronavirus. At the time, the company said idling the plant was “the responsible action to take.”
Now a second outbreak has occurred. While an exact number of 2 Sisters workers who tested positive in the latest outbreak was not revealed, a spokesperson for Food Standards Scotland told Food Manufacture, “All staff from the affected unit are following public health advice and isolating, and the plant continues to operate with appropriate COVID-19 infection prevention measures in place.”
The Coupar Angus plant is not the only one in the 2 Sisters Food Group network to have experienced a meaningful disruption to production because of COVID-19 cases among workers. The company’s poultry plant in Llangefni, Wales, suspended operations on June 8, 2020, but resumed operations on July 3, 2020.
2 Sisters Food Group, according to the Poultry International Top Companies survey, is the largest poultry producer in the United Kingdom. It ranks as the sixth largest poultry company in Europe and the 26th largest in the world. The company slaughtered 323 million broilers in 2019.
2 Sisters Group is a subsidiary of Boparan Holdings. One of the 10 largest privately held companies in the United Kingdom, 2 Sisters Food Group supplies about one-third of all poultry products consumed in the United Kingdom.
View our continuing coverage of the coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic.
