OK Foods was placed on a list of banned suppliers based on an erroneous release of COVID-19 data by the Arkansas Department of Health.
The president and CEO of OK Foods, Trent Goins noted that, there were sixty active cases of COVID-19 out of 774 employees in the Fort Smith plant since March 2020 with no current active cases. Accordingly, the Company is negotiating with authorities in China for the ban to be lifted.