Hog and pork producers shut down operations in North Carolina and Virginia in preparation for Hurricane Isabel, which reached the east coast of the US yesterday.
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Officials at Smithfield Foods said they had had difficulty contacting the company’s pork facilities in North Carolina and Virginia but that the operations were probably shut down.
The company has three plants in the area, which together have an estimated daily slaughter of 50,300 head, reported Reuters.
“As a safety precaution, the movement of animals from the farms to processing plants has been shut down until Friday morning,” said Don Butler, spokesman for Murphy-Brown, the hog production unit of Smithfield Foods.
In 1999, high winds and flooding caused by Hurricane Floyd killed more than 30,000 hogs, 2.5 million poultry and hundreds of cattle.
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