Eighteen plant employees at Bernard Matthews turkey processing in Suffolk tested positive for coronavirus.
Public fitness officials had to control about a hundred in operation at the Holton plant near Halesworth.
Bernard Matthews said those who tested positive for Covid-19, from the Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft spaces, were now isolated.
The turkey processor employs approximately 1,000 other people at the Suffolk site.
Food production has been affected by the outbreak, Matthews and public fitness officials said in a joint statement.
A corporate spokesman said, “We, this small number of instances have been initiated into the community, yet we will continue to implement our strong Covid measures as we enter our most active time of year. “
The company said it was proceeding to normal temperature controls, staff running in bubbles, Covid-19 marshals, masks and visors, and social distances from the site.
Stuart Keeble, Director of Public Health at Suffolk, said: “I need to assure other people that this is a small number of cases at this level and that the scenario is being very thoroughly controlled across all partners working together. “
Bernard Matthews is the first meat processor to have had cases of coronavirus among his workforce.
In June, Asda was forced to temporarily close her meat site in West Yorkshire after 165 staff members tested positive for Covid-19.
2 Sisters, which produces one third of all poultry products fed in the United Kingdom, closed its meat factory in Anglesey after an outbreak inflamed thirteen factory workers.
Elsewhere in Germany, Europe’s largest meat processing has been affected by an epidemic that has quarantined some 7,000 people.
Contact Editor-in-Chief Daniel Wild by emailing daniel. wild@farminguk. com or calling 01484 400666 if you have any questions about the content of this article.
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