{"id":"SEC-20-020","kind":"order","level":"federal","jurisdiction":"South Dakota (Smithfield Foods Sioux Falls)","state":"","metro":"","industry":"20","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"CDC (NIOSH and NCEZID) memorandum to Joshua Clayton, South Dakota Department of Health","authority":"Epi-Aid at the request of the State (42 U.S.C. 243)","instrument":"Memorandum: Strategies to reduce COVID-19 transmission at the Smithfield Foods Sioux Falls Pork Plant","title":"same","dateIssued":"2020-04-22","effective":"n/a","end":"n/a","startDate":"2020-04-22","endDate":"2020-06-30","quarters":["2020Q2"],"types":["OTHER"],"addressees":["South Dakota DOH; Smithfield Foods; UFCW Local 304A"],"clause":"No harvesting or further production work were taking place in the plant while we were on site. The first case among employees was detected on March 24, 2020. Smithfield Foods announced that the process to halt production began on April 11, 2020. The [process was] completed on April 14, 2020 and that the plant would be shut down indefinitely while Smithfield Foods continued extensive sanitation and modification efforts in the plant.","enforcement":"n/a","functions":["PK (closure of the plant that processed 4-5 percent of U.S. pork)","FP (hog producers backed up)","MK","TR"],"notes":"The Governor\u0027s and Mayor\u0027s Apr. 11, 2020 letter requesting a fourteen-day closure is the State action.","sourceUrl":"https://covid.sd.gov/docs/smithfield_recs.pdf","snapshot":"http://web.archive.org/web/20200425231200/https://covid.sd.gov/docs/smithfield_recs.pdf","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":192074,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"SEC-20","url":"/library/SEC-20-020","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/SEC-20-020","citation":"CDC (NIOSH and NCEZID) memorandum to Joshua Clayton, South Dakota Department of Health, Memorandum: Strategies to reduce COVID-19 transmission at the Smithfield Foods Sioux Falls Pork Plant (Apr. 22, 2020) (Ex. SEC-20-020)","stateName":"","related":[]}