The union representing federal meat inspectors says its members will be back at work Monday at a meatpacking plant just north of Calgary if the Canadian Food Inspection Agency is reassured that it’s safe.
Production at family-owned Harmony Beef was halted last Friday after one of its employees tested positive for COVID-19 a day earlier.
It processes up to 750 head of cattle per day. The company was notified by Alberta Health that a worker, who hadn’t been on the job for days, had tested positive.
A number of other workers from that area of the plant are self-isolating. The halt in operations was ordered by the CFIA which wouldn’t allow its inspectors to enter the facility. “There’s been no work refusals from any of the federal food