4th Circuit: Fired Meat Manager’s Food Safety Claims Could Have Led To Termination

( August 4, 2025, 8:47 AM EDT) -- RICHMOND, Va. — A fired Kraft Heinz Foods production manager has grounds to argue that complaints he raised about food safety in violation of the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) at the South Carolina plant where he worked could have contributed to his termination, a Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruled in vacating a summary judgment order and remanding the case back to the trial court....