Carroll Cuisine suspends production amid Covid-19 outbreak; rapid testing expected to roll out in meat plants

Carroll Cuisines meat fatory has temporarily suspended production. Picture: Niall Carson/PA Wire

Tullamore food company Carroll Cuisine has temporarily suspended production after it came under intense pressure to close following an outbreak of Covid-19.

The Offaly-based plant is the fourth meat plant in the midlands to close after the detection of Covid-19 clusters among staff in the past week. Kildare Chilling, O'Brien Fine Foods, and Irish Dog Foods have also suspended operations.