I just want to qualify that I'm not an inspector. I came from the Department of Agriculture and Agri-Food, where I was a health and safety adviser. Many of my members of the Agriculture Union are inspectors. I talk to them every day and I visited these plants myself.
What we've been told by the Public Health Agency is that there is no hazard to the public when it comes to the food that's being produced in there. I think that's why we haven't seen outbreaks in the community from a food-borne illness. If it were listeria or E. coli, then, yes, absolutely, that would survive on the food and could be transmitted to the public. In the case of COVID-19, there's no evidence, to my knowledge, that it can be transmitted through the food chain.