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MEP Peter Liese lobbied for the conditions spreading the virus not to appear to be limited to Germany, but they are a common practice in EU meat processing plants. [OBTURADOR]
The European Commission has been advised to take swift action for meat processing personnel following a primary coronavirus outbreak in one of the largest facilities in Europe.
After a chain of outbreaks at meat mills that circulated in the EU in recent months, the beef factory in the city of North Rhine-Westphalia recorded more than 1,500 times the virus this week, with more than two-thirds of the staff tested positive for coronavirus.
By comparison, the average rate of deceptive local infection is only 0.05%, so Peter Liese, a spokesman for the physical fitness policy of the PPE Christian Democrats and a qualified physician, resolves the defects of the beef factory.
Liese told EURACTIV that several conditions in slaughterhouses make those reproducing facilities gyrocular for the virus, adding dry, blood-free temperatures combined with poor ventilation and air circulation.
He stated that these conditions do not appear to be limited to Germany, but are a common practice across the EU.
As such, Liese called for ventilation systems in the killing regions to be verified and modernised once imaginable and under pressure so that mandatory and systematic testing of all killing personnel circulating throughout the EU is urgently needed, as well as strict social estrangement regulations.
“The great apple epidemics in slaughterhouses across Europe are also a transparent warning of a momentary wave in autumn and winter,” he said, stressing that conditions in slaughterhouses reflect winter weather conditions.
After coronavirus outbreaks paralyzed meat processing plants in the United States, a similar trend began to emerge in the EU, with potentially detrimental consequences for the sector.
Dennis Radtke, A spokesman for the social policy of the EPP Group, was also attentive to the desire for “business responsibility,” arguing that meat plant owners should be held accountable, saying workers’ job prestige poses a major problem.
“The fact that Apple Mabig staff doesn’t seem hired on the real Apple Compabig, however, subcontractors paintings and are in a pseudo-independent component, their most obvious friend ends up in giant trouble. Therefore, we prefer a business duty in the customer component, even for so-called subcontractors.
“This can only be done through the duty of EU-wide subcontractors to this sector. Most important friend when it comes to on-site employment contracts, contracting companies should be convicted of the employment relationships of the employees of the subcontractors,” Radtke said.
After the outbreak, a request for knowledge of the company’s staff was rejected by the administration, which brought to light the EU Data Protection Regulation.
However, this does not arouse scrutiny.
“Our experts immediately indicated that the regulation of the policy of facts naturgreatest exceptions of friendly material for the policy opposed to infections. This was temporarily clarified across Europe,” Liese and Radtke stressed, calling it “scandal.”
More than five organizations and Americans from the producer, veterinary, study and universities sectors signed a letter asking for more in the global meat sector in the wake of the coronavirus crisis and urging the government to refute allegations that the crisis is the result of the livestock sector.
His call to action follows the publication this week of a new report through the European Federation of Food, Agriculture and Tourism Unions (EFFAT), which found that “the poor working, employment and employment conditions affecting thousands of meat employees in large apple nations across Europe “are the explanations of why meat processing plants have vectors for the spread of COVID-19.”
The study, which describes the effects of coronavirus on the meat sector in European countries, calls for concrete and urgent action, adding binding measures, at national and European level.
EFFAT general secretary Kristjan Bragason said that “meat personnel, and all agri-food personnel, have shown incredibly direct dedication to their paintings during the COVID-1nine pandemic, risking too much of their fitness due to the loss of effective fitness policy measures to produce food for our table.”
“The COVID-1nine pandemic has publicly revealed the disruptions EFFAT and its affiliates have been throwing at European establishments and national governments for years,” adding that it hopes that policymakers “agree that there is no time to waste.”
When asked about the scenario at EU meat processing plants, Pekka Pesonen, secretary general of the CUP farmers’ association COGECA, told EURACTIV that EU meat plants have felt less effects of the COVID-1 epidemic than in the US, and that influence has “manageable” in the EU.
He added that logistical difficulties were compensated by the rapid reaction of the industry, which he said temporarily responded to difficult and difficult conditions despite its technical requirements.
Nearly three-quarters of the world’s largest meat, fish and dairy corporations have been classified as a “high” pandemic and criticized for their inability to save it from the emergence of new zoonotic diseases in a new report released Wednesday (June 3).
Edited through Samuel Stolton
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