The Paper's reporter Wang Qifan
Cargill Animal Protein (Anhui) Co., Ltd
Cargill responded to the "Chuzhou factory chicken leg outer packaging covid-19 nucleic acid test positive".
On December 15, Cargill Animal Protein (Anhui) Co., Ltd. issued a statement saying that Cargill Animal Protein Anhui Chuzhou Factory received a notice from the local government that the factory supplied a batch of "Pipa Chicken Leg" products in the Wuxi market in Jiangsu Province, and one of the samples tested positive for the new crown virus tested locally. Since then, Cargill has worked closely with government departments to conduct comprehensive testing and investigation. The current results show that the nucleic acid test of all employees in the factory is negative, and the nucleic acid test results of various samples such as product raw materials, production lines, cold chain transfer vehicles in the factory, office space, and cold storage are also negative.
In addition, Cargill said that the above-mentioned batch of chicken thigh products were picked up, transported, stored and sampled and sent for inspection by the distributors themselves. At present, the Lai'an County Epidemic Prevention and Control Emergency Command has issued a letter of assistance for the transportation and logistics links outside the province. Cargill Animal Protein Chuzhou Factory will continue to strictly implement relevant epidemic prevention measures and requirements, and proactively ensure personnel safety and product safety.
On December 16, the beautiful Chuzhou official micro released the news, at 14:45 on December 15, 2020, the county epidemic prevention and control headquarters received the city's epidemic prevention and control emergency command headquarters to transfer the investigation letter, saying that one of the three batches of domestic chicken legs purchased from Cargill Protein Nutrition Technology (Anhui) Co., Ltd. showed positive nucleic acid test on the outer packaging.
After receiving the letter of cooperation, the county party committee and the county government attached great importance to it, and the county epidemic prevention and control headquarters took emergency measures at the first time, immediately organized relevant departments to carry out investigations on Cargill Protein Nutrition Technology (Anhui) Co., Ltd., and carried out nucleic acid testing for the company's staff and key places. At present, 2712 nucleic acid testing samples have been carried out for the company's staff, and 2313 results have been produced, all of which are negative and 399 results are to be produced; a total of 267 samples have been taken on cold chain transport vehicles, office spaces, cold storage, production lines, food, etc., and the test results are negative. At the same time, it guides the company to comprehensively carry out environmental disinfection.
According to the information of Tianyancha, cargill protein nutrition technology (Chuzhou) Co., Ltd. involved in this case is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Cargill Investment (China) Co., Ltd., which was established on December 21, 2011, with the legal representative Chen Mian and the registered capital of the company of 612.5 million yuan, and the business scope includes: research and development, processing and sales of quick-frozen food, meat products, aquatic products, edible oil and product sales.
In June last year, Cargill announced that the second phase of the animal protein deep processing plant in Chuzhou, Anhui Province, was officially put into operation, with an investment of 338 million yuan, which is expected to create 600 new jobs in the local area. So far, Cargill's total investment in the chuzhou animal protein industry chain project has reached 500 million US dollars.
According to relevant information, the Cargill Chuzhou project was launched in 2009 as a longitudinal integration project of poultry meat, covering all aspects of the poultry supply chain such as feed, breeding, incubation, broiler, primary processing and deep processing. At present, the annual slaughter of broiler chickens is as high as 40 million, the daily peak processing capacity is more than 200,000, and all broilers are supplied by Cargill's self-built farms.
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