{"id":56526,"date":"2020-08-29T22:27:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-29T19:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/meat-processing-exec-with-spotty-covid-19-record-appointed-to-federal-safety-panel\/"},"modified":"2020-08-29T22:27:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-29T19:27:00","slug":"meat-processing-exec-with-spotty-covid-19-record-appointed-to-federal-safety-panel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/meat-processing-exec-with-spotty-covid-19-record-appointed-to-federal-safety-panel\/","title":{"rendered":"#Meat processing exec with spotty COVID-19 record appointed to federal safety panel"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Meat processing exec with spotty COVID-19 record app<\/a>ointed to federal safety panel<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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August 29, 2020 |<\/span> 3:27pm <\/p>\n

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\n An executive from a scandal-scarred, COVID-19-ravaged meat-processing giant has been named to a federal oversight panel on the meat-packing industry. <\/span><\/p>\n

Sherri Williams, who oversees food safety at JBS, is among 10 new appointments to the US Department of Agriculture\u2019s National Advisory Committee on Meat and Poultry Inspection, the agency announced earlier this month.<\/p>\n

In addition to Williams, and another rep from JBS\u2019 chicken-producing arm Pilgrim\u2019s Pride, the 15-member board is comprised mostly of academics and agricultural specialists.<\/p>\n

The company was slow to react when hundreds of workers became infected with COVID-19 at its plants in Colorado and Nebraska, union leaders say, and the CEO of JBS-owned Pilgrim\u2019s Pride was indicted in Colorado in June for price-fixing.<\/p>\n

\u201cJBS\u2019 repeated and studied contempt toward implementing basic health measures \u2026 may well have led to the death of six of our members,\u201d wrote Kim Cordova, president of Local 7 of the United Food and Commercial Workers in Greeley, Col. \u201cIt took the threat of a complete shutdown of the plant to grudgingly move JBS toward some compliance with even the most elementary measures to contain the spread of the virus.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Joesley Batista, an executive from meat-packing giant JBS<\/span>AFP via Getty Images <\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The most recent appointment didn\u2019t sit well with Ben Gotschall of the Organization for Competitive Markets, a Nebraska-based advocacy group representing independent farmers and ranchers.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t like the fact that JBS has been appointed to that panel,\u201d he said. \u201cJBS is kind of like our poster organization because every week there\u2019s something that they are doing that\u2019s just so atrocious.\u201d<\/p>\n

In Brazil, principals of the parent company, JBS SA, are under investigation for bribing 2,000 elected officials in order to secure government funding to fuel their company\u2019s US expansion a few years ago. Joesley and Wesley Batista, the brothers who control the company, were slapped with more than $3.2 billion in fines in 2017, the largest in the country\u2019s history.<\/p>\n

Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez also have a beef with the Brazilian company for its alleged deals with the Venezuelan government after the company developed business ties with the administration of President Nicolas Maduro.<\/p>\n

A spokesman for JBS said the company has implemented several safety protocols in order to protect its workforce, including increasing sanitation and disinfection, temperature testing and providing extra personal protective equipment. He also said that \u201cno lobbying was involved\u201d by the company over the Aug. 19 appointment of Williams.<\/p>\n

Williams was first appointed to the panel by the Obama administration in 2014, serving one two-year term. She was newly appointed this year \u201cdue to her outstanding public service to NACMPI,\u201d a JBS spokesman told The Post.\n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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