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Chinese-owned Smithfield Foods shutters two more meat processing plants in Missouri and Wisconsin after massive coronavirus outbreak closed South Dakota factory, threatening the American food supply chain  By KEITH GRIFFITH FOR DAILYMAIL.COM    17 April 2020

Smithfield on Wednesday closed two more plants in Missouri and Wisconsin

Plant in South Dakota closed after becoming the biggest single source of infection in the United States
CEO warns that packing plants are a 'bottleneck' in the US food supply chain
Closures threaten to raise the price of pork or cause temporary shortages
Smithfield was purchased by Chinese meat packing giant WH Group in 2013
FDA says there is no evidence of virus transmission through food or packaging 

Chinese-owned meat packing giant Smithfield Foods has closed two additional plants in the U.S. after coronavirus outbreaks, raising concerns about the American food supply chain.

Smithfield announced the closures of packing plants in Cudahy, Wisconsin and Martin City, Missouri on Wednesday, days after its Sioux Falls, South Dakota plant was indefinitely shuttered.

The Sioux Falls plant, where 518 employees and 120 of their family members have tested positive for coronavirus, is now the largest single source of cases in the U.S., and the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention has dispatched a critical response team to the scene.

Smithfield said in a statement that a 'small number of employees' at both the Cudahy and the Martin City plants had tested positive for the virus, without offering further details.

Smithfield's Sioux Falls plant, where 518 employees 
and 120 of their family members have tested positive
 for coronavirus, is now closed indefinitely

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