Factories keep some production during outbreak
Thursday, 1st March 2001.
TWO major employers in the Haverhill area face disruption from foot-and-mouth disease restrictions but neither expects to stop production.
Grampian Country Foods employs more than 900 staff at its Little Wratting pig processing plant but cannot slaughter any animals until the transportation of livestock resumes.
Alasdair Cox, marketing manager, said production would be affected but would not stop as there were products on site which could be manufactured.
Associated Casings in Helions Bumpstead Road, Haverhill, employs 90 people making sausage skins from pigs' intestines and processing other pig products.
Terry Rudgeley, managing director, said they used material from about 140,000 pigs a week in the largest operation of its kind in the country.
Although 42 staff whose work involves abattoirs will start a week's holiday from today, production at Haverhill should not be affected.
Mr Rudgeley estimated they held enough stock at Haverhill to last six weeks.
Grampian Country Foods employs more than 900 staff at its Little Wratting pig processing plant but cannot slaughter any animals until the transportation of livestock resumes.
Alasdair Cox, marketing manager, said production would be affected but would not stop as there were products on site which could be manufactured.
Associated Casings in Helions Bumpstead Road, Haverhill, employs 90 people making sausage skins from pigs' intestines and processing other pig products.
Terry Rudgeley, managing director, said they used material from about 140,000 pigs a week in the largest operation of its kind in the country.
Although 42 staff whose work involves abattoirs will start a week's holiday from today, production at Haverhill should not be affected.
Mr Rudgeley estimated they held enough stock at Haverhill to last six weeks.
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