With many of us trying to stay at home as much as possible, ordering meal kits and other mail-order food is a popular alternative to going out. The CDC has published some tips to make sure these types of food
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Small business relief under the CARES Act: Bankruptcy Protections and the Paycheck Protection Program
America’s small businesses are facing an unprecedented economic disruption due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. In these difficult and uncertain times, it is important for business owners to be aware of the resources available to them to help mitigate the
Can Restaurants Be Liable for COVID-19 Transmission to Customers? Insight from Hepatitis A Litigation
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to reveal numerous unique and unaddressed issues each day. While we as individuals are becoming more intimately acquainted with nuances we previously took for granted, many others—especially businesses—are confronting a myriad of problems and obstacles that
Holy Shit – Toilets May Pose Risk for Spreading COVID-19
MEDSCAPE VIDEO BY DAVID A. JOHNSON MD (5 minutes , 27 seconds)
Some excerpts from the video transcript:
“As we know, GI diseases can be transmitted via the fecal-oral route. Now researchers looking at hospitals in Wuhan, China, that treated
Businesses may be deemed essential, but so is worker health
Meat industry giants such as Tyson Foods and JBS U.S. Holdings have closed some of their facilities as employees have fallen ill with COVID-19, but JBS has kept its Greeley, Colorado facility open despite the fact that at least 28
Legal Op-Ed: Can Washington-based small businesses relieve themselves of their contractual obligations during the COVID-19 pandemic?
While many Washington-based restaurants still provide “carry-out and quick-serve food operations” under Governor Jay Inslee’s business-closure order, their ability to generate revenue has been severely impacted. Technomic, a restaurant industry research group, reported that consumer spending on food service is
Coronavirus tops 325,000 ill with nearly 9,000 dead
- Total cases: 330,891
- Total deaths: 8,910
- Jurisdictions reporting cases: 55 (50 states, District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands)
CDC, Coronavirus and COVID-19 – Thoughts on Food Safety
The coronavirus and COVID-19 have instigated a new normal for us all, affecting almost every aspect of life. We are all aware of the everyday preventive actions the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends.
- Avoid close contact with
I need to get to bed: Coronavirus on 4.4.20 – 1,203,484 sick with 64,774 dead
And, it is far from over. PLEASE, stay home, stay distanced, wear a mask and wash your hands.
Coronavirus – its likely not the food you eat but the air your breathe
Chicken with Salmonella can make you sick. So can romaine lettuce with E. coli and buffets with lurking norovirus. So why aren’t health officials warning people about eating food contaminated with the new coronavirus?
The answer has to do with