U.S. meat plants are starting to reopen, USDA Secretary Sonny Perdue said in remarks at the White House Wednesday.
“The plants are reopening in Iowa and other places. We may have still a few closed, but we are working,” Perdue said during a meeting between President Donald Trump and Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds.
“They are opening this week. And I think we have turned the corner, based on that commonality of uniform standards there.” He noted that “we have turned the corner. We see these plants coming back on line. Obviously, because of some infected employees, they will not be full force for a while, but we think the stores will be… you will see more variety and more meat cases fully supplied.”
Asked for a timeline for that to happen, Perdue predicted “probably a week to 10 days where it is fully back up.”
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