San Jose, California Mayor Sam Liccardo looks at how the city is handling the recent surge in coronavirus cases.
Los Angeles health officials ordered three area food providers to close for unreported coronavirus outbreaks among their workers.
S&S Foods in Azusa, California was told to close after 58 employees tested positive for coronavirus, KTLA reported. The order also included Mission Foods Corp. in Commerce, where 40 tested positive, and Golden State Foods Corp. in City of Industry, where 43 tested positive, according to KTLA.
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“They have major outbreaks among their employees, [and] we weren’t notified as we are required to notify us once they had all three of their cases, “LA County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said Monday, according to KTLA.” Our inspector asked them to do some modifications to really improve their infection control protocols at all three sites. “
Golden State Foods is one of McDonald’s largest suppliers.
Mission Foods employee Jose Roberto Alvarez, 67, died in July after contracting the coronavirus, and his family said the company did not adequately protect him, KTLA reported.
In this April 9, 2020 photo, a health worker administers a coronavirus test at a test drive site organized by actor Sean Penn’s nonprofit organization, Community Organized Relief Effort (CORE) at City Hall. Malibu in Malibu, California. (AP Photo
“He would come home and tell my mother that someone else understood, then someone else understood. There were rumors he heard among the facilities,” his daughter Alisha Alvarez said, according to KTLA. “The fact that her work didn’t reveal that other people were sick, and putting her in danger is really incredible.”
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Many food industry workers continued to work in the midst of the pandemic, and meat processing plants were especially affected at the start of the coronavirus pandemic.
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More than 16,000 workers at meat and poultry processing plants in 23 states were diagnosed with coronavirus as of May 31, according to the latest CDC numbers.
FOX Business’s inquiries to Golden State Foods Corp., Mission Foods and S&S Foods LLC’s parent company, CTI Foods, were not immediately answered.
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