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Nottingham Post
Nottingham Post
National
Matt Jarram

Staff members test positive for coronavirus at major Nottingham bakery

Six staff from a Nottingham bakery site have tested positive for Covid-19.

Addo Food Group, which produces goods for supermarkets and is also the firm behind Walls and Pork Farms, has confirmed an outbreak at its Riverside Bakery site in Crossgate Drive.

The Rivergate site is not used for Pork Farms or Walls products, but for own label chilled quiche, flans and savoury tarts for the retail sector.

The firm has decided to keep the bakery open.

A spokesman for the company said: "Unfortunately, six of our colleagues have tested positive for Covid-19 at our Riverside bakery site - this represents around 1% of the workforce at the bakery.

"We take the health and safety of our employees seriously and since the start of the pandemic, we have implemented and strictly followed government guidance on screening, social distancing and hand washing and continue to take additional steps to help prevent further spread of the virus and reduce risk within our business.

"The health, safety and wellbeing of our workforce is our number one priority - with that in mind, we continue to refer colleagues for testing as required and have an immediate and clear plan we are following.

"Our Riverside bakery continues to operate normally, and we are communicating with Public Health England."

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