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What to do if HomeAid garbage disposal clogs or leak?
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What to do if HomeAid garbage disposal clogs or leak?
1. The Disposal Clogs
When a disposal clogs and water backs up into the sink, the cause is usually a clogged drain line. It is important that you clean this clog manually and not use a commercially available clog remover (Drano, Liquid Plumber, etc.) because the caustic chemicals can damage the unit.
 Identify the drain line, place an empty bucket beneath it, and detach it from the main disposal unit. This could require a wrench (if your line is attached with dual bolts) or the release of a pressure joint (simply unscrew it). Use your finger to clear out the drain line opening in the disposal, then clear the drain line of any blockage there as well.
 If the clog is further down the line, you’ll need to clear it with a drain snake or call a professional plumber to handle the situation.
 2. Water Leaks Under the Sink
There are three places that a garbage disposal is likely to leak. The first place to check is the garbage disposal drain line. Tighten the drain line bolts or the pressure seal to stop a leak here. If the pressure seal is broken, you’ll need to purchase  new o-ring (available at all major grocery stores, home-improvement  stores, etc.)
 Another possible leak location is at the dishwasher connection. The same type of connection that is seen in the drain line will be used here. Either tighten the bolts or replace the gasket.
 The worst place to find a leak is in the sink flange. Most of the leaks in this area ore due to failed upper gaskets. These cannot be replaced by the DIYer, and are expensive for plumbers to fix. Unless you have a top of the line commercial disposal, purchasing a new one will often cost the same amount as repair the old.
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2020 Gets Even Worse as Citrus and Potatoes Are Recalled Over Potential Listeria Outbreak
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Lemons, limes, and oranges are among the fruits recall after listeria monocytogenes was found on a piece of produce equipment at the Freshouse packing plant
August has been a bad month for produce — among many, many other things. Earlier this month, grocery chains and major producers across the country recalled onions that may have been contaminated with salmonella. As well as being sold raw, the onions were cooked into some ready-to-eat dishes at grocery stores, and according to the New York Times, shoppers at Krogers in Louisiana and Texas were advised to toss out macaroni salad, pasta salad, and chicken salad croissant sandwiches.
Now, another round of produce problems have been reported. A potential listeria contamination has the FDA recalling lemons, limes, oranges, and potatoes, according to CNN. The voluntary recall stems from Listeria monocytogenes being detected on a piece of equipment used to process the produce at Freshouse II LLC, according to an FDA statement. CNN reports that the produce made its way to retailer distribution centers in North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Virginia, as well as to wholesalers in Maryland and North Carolina. Photos of the contaminated produce can be found here.
The company wrote in its statement that the recall was being implemented “out of an abundance of caution.” Though it was voluntary, caution doesn’t seem like an optional measure, considering listeria is most likely to seriously sicken pregnant women, young children, the elderly, and those with compromised immune systems — many of the same demographics already at a heightened risk of complications from COVID-19.
Cooking is one of very few comforts that remains during a terrifying pandemic and a devastating economic crisis, and recalls like these are an unpleasant reminder that our food system — as enormous and seemingly sturdy as it is — begins to fall apart when major suppliers and producers face issues on farms and in warehouses. It was a reminder delivered to consumers when workers squeezed together in meatpacking plants began contracting COVID-19 at an alarming rate. There was fear that the entire meat industry would shudder to a halt. Even then, concerns were largely about the supply chain, not the workers becoming sick in facilities as the president signed an executive order demanding they remain open.
It’s easy enough to think about food without thinking about the way it’s produced, or the people who do the producing. It’s calming to sink into the couch as a pot of stew bubbles away on the stove, blissfully disconnecting from our upsetting reality, if even just for an hour. But there’s no way to really, truly disconnect, when a bad lemon or a no-good potato might be sitting on the counter.
Maybe September will be kinder to the produce aisle.
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Lemons, limes, and oranges are among the fruits recall after listeria monocytogenes was found on a piece of produce equipment at the Freshouse packing plant
August has been a bad month for produce — among many, many other things. Earlier this month, grocery chains and major producers across the country recalled onions that may have been contaminated with salmonella. As well as being sold raw, the onions were cooked into some ready-to-eat dishes at grocery stores, and according to the New York Times, shoppers at Krogers in Louisiana and Texas were advised to toss out macaroni salad, pasta salad, and chicken salad croissant sandwiches.
Now, another round of produce problems have been reported. A potential listeria contamination has the FDA recalling lemons, limes, oranges, and potatoes, according to CNN. The voluntary recall stems from Listeria monocytogenes being detected on a piece of equipment used to process the produce at Freshouse II LLC, according to an FDA statement. CNN reports that the produce made its way to retailer distribution centers in North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Virginia, as well as to wholesalers in Maryland and North Carolina. Photos of the contaminated produce can be found here.
The company wrote in its statement that the recall was being implemented “out of an abundance of caution.” Though it was voluntary, caution doesn’t seem like an optional measure, considering listeria is most likely to seriously sicken pregnant women, young children, the elderly, and those with compromised immune systems — many of the same demographics already at a heightened risk of complications from COVID-19.
Cooking is one of very few comforts that remains during a terrifying pandemic and a devastating economic crisis, and recalls like these are an unpleasant reminder that our food system — as enormous and seemingly sturdy as it is — begins to fall apart when major suppliers and producers face issues on farms and in warehouses. It was a reminder delivered to consumers when workers squeezed together in meatpacking plants began contracting COVID-19 at an alarming rate. There was fear that the entire meat industry would shudder to a halt. Even then, concerns were largely about the supply chain, not the workers becoming sick in facilities as the president signed an executive order demanding they remain open.
It’s easy enough to think about food without thinking about the way it’s produced, or the people who do the producing. It’s calming to sink into the couch as a pot of stew bubbles away on the stove, blissfully disconnecting from our upsetting reality, if even just for an hour. But there’s no way to really, truly disconnect, when a bad lemon or a no-good potato might be sitting on the counter.
Maybe September will be kinder to the produce aisle.
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New top story from Time: ‘It’s a Bucket Brigade on a Five-Alarm Fire.’ Food Banks Struggle to Keep Up With Skyrocketing Demand
In a matter of five months, 47-year-old Aquanna Quarles saw her personal finances implode. In December, she totaled her car. In February, the car she replaced the totaled one with was stolen. And in early March, her kitchen flooded, destroying the food in her cabinets and the small appliances on top of them. Quarles remembers thinking, “Oh my God, like what else could go wrong?”
Then the novel coronavirus began spreading across the United States. In mid-March, the state of Ohio, where Quarles lives, began issuing stay-at-home orders, shuttering shops and businesses, and by the end of the month, the rest of the country had followed suit, pushing millions of Americans out of work. Quarles, who works for a home health care company doing both office work and caring for elderly and disabled individuals, saw her hours—and weekly earnings—cut in half.
In April, for the first time in her life, Quarles felt she had no choice but to lean on a food bank to make ends meet. “This was really my first time ever doing it,” Quarles says of her decision to seek assistance from a food charity. “Because if I don’t need it, I’m not gonna go. You know what I mean? But I needed it.”
On April 21, Quarles lined up in her car with thousands of other Ohioans in the parking lot of Wright State University’s football stadium where Dayton’s Foodbank, Inc. had set up an emergency drive-thru food distribution site. On that day alone, the food bank served 1,381 households and more than 4,500 individuals, according to its chief development officer Lee Lauren Truesdale. After four hours, Quarles returned home with about a couple week’s worth of chicken cutlets, chickpeas, cucumbers, eggs, peach-flavored protein shakes, potatoes, rice and watermelons.
Quarles’s recent hardship has become all too common in recent weeks, as tens of millions of working- and middle-class Americans like her—bartenders and servers, childcare providers and hairdressers and hotel staff—have found themselves suddenly with decreased or eliminated incomes for the foreseeable future. On April 23, new unemployment numbers showed another 4.4 million people filed unemployment claims last week, bringing the total since March 14 to more than 26 million. Though Quarles did not lose her job completely, her reduced hours may make her eligible for partial unemployment insurance. Like millions of Americans, Quarles has faced difficulties accessing that benefit. Though she says she applied for the assistance at the end of March, she hasn’t yet seen the payment hit her bank account.
Stories like Quarles’ underscore the fragility of the American economic landscape. Until recently, the U.S. economy was sailing through the longest expansion on record—trumpeting record-low jobless rates and a bull stock market. But after just five weeks of recession, tens of millions of Americans are suddenly without the most basic necessities, including food and medical care. While incomes have vanished, the trappings of middle class life—car notes, mortgages, rent obligations and utility bills—have continued to pile up, forcing Americans who until very recently had full-time jobs to the brink of true poverty. With nearly 40% of U.S. adults unable to afford an emergency expense of $400, according to a 2019 report by the Federal Reserve, many have turned to food charities for help.
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Tech Sgt. Shane Hughes—U.S. Air National Guard. Soldiers unload food at the Dayton Foodbank in Dayton, Ohio, on April 21, 2020.
When Three Square Food Bank of Las Vegas was modeling its new drive-thru food distribution systems several weeks ago, it anticipated between 200 and 250 cars per donation site each day. Instead, its chief operating officer Larry Scott says the organization is seeing up to 1,200 cars each day at some of its sites—in queues that stretch to five miles and longer. At the Central Pennsylvania Food Bank, executive director Joe Arthur estimates his nonprofit went from serving 135,000 individuals a month to approximately 175,000. Central Texas Food Bank president and CEO Derrick Chubbs says its Travis County partners saw a 207% spike in clients.
But as new patrons line up for food assistance in record numbers, and old clients become even more reliant on donations, half a dozen major food insecurity nonprofits tell TIME they are experiencing financial and procedural challenges of their own. “All hell broke loose at the first of March,” says Lisa Hamler-Fugitt, the executive director of the Ohio Association of Foodbanks, which doles out resources to the state’s individual food organizations, like Truesdale’s.
Since then, she adds, it’s been “a bucket brigade on a five-alarm fire.”
‘That spigot just shut off’
In fatter times, food banks receive donations of shelf-stable items, like peanut butter, pasta, tuna fish, and soup, from wholesalers, manufacturers, restaurants, and grocery chains that over-ordered. But since COVID-19 hit, those businesses have seen their own stores dry up. Manufacturers are prioritizing shipping their products to grocery stores, which can barely keep shelves stocked, as people have begun to eat all of their meals at home.
In Illinois, a spokesperson for the Greater Chicago Food Depository says it received only 1.83 million pounds of donated food from non-government sources last month—a 30% decrease from what it received a year ago, in March 2019. The spokesperson says the figure is lower in part because restaurants and grocers are less able to give, but also because the nonprofit had to focus on accepting “non-perishable foods in this ongoing crisis,” as shelf-stable items last longer, require less handling, and can more easily be transported to the organization’s partner charities.
“When the pandemic hit the supply chain, that spigot just shut off,” says Hamler-Fugitt. She added, “We don’t have enough food in the system to keep up with this demand. We just don’t.”
As the stream of donations have declined, some food charities have been forced to buy pantry items at or near retail prices, which puts many food banks operating on small budgets in a nearly impossible situation. Under normal circumstances, the cost of supplying a food-insecure client with 28 to 30 pounds of groceries would cost Central Texas Food Bank $5 per box, says Chubbs, its CEO. These days, the cost is closer to $30 per box, at a time when the organization anticipates needing demand for about 25,000 boxes a week.
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Tech Sgt. Shane Hughes—U.S. Air National Guard. Hundreds of members of the Ohio National Guard were activated March 18, 2020 to support food distribution efforts across Ohio.
But the food banks that have so far managed to avoid paying retail prices are finding that securing shelf-stable items can be challenging too, says Kate Maehr, the executive director of the Greater Chicago Food Depository. That’s partly because manufacturers are not yet keeping up with new demand for pantry staples, and partly because the products they do produce first go to the retail stores. Food banks, she says, are “last in line.”
“If you’re a manufacturer, you’re going to make sure that you are honoring the relationships that you have with retailers and your core business,” Maehr says. “We are getting told by suppliers that we are three weeks, six weeks, and in some instances, 12 weeks out before we can get truckloads of food.”
Some states have increased funding to food charities to help offset these new barriers, but food bank directors say it’s unlikely to cover the difference. Earlier this month, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine signed an executive order to provide the Ohio Association of Foodbanks a one-time $5 million appropriation on top of the $25 million the charity receives annually. The group estimates it will need $54 million per month if demand continues to grow apace.
In the past, when food banks in one state have been overrun as a result of regional disasters, like flooding or a hurricane, food banks in other parts of the country have been able to supplement staff and food supply, says Elaine Waxman, a food insecurity expert at the Urban Institute. But in this pandemic, the whole country is affected.
“Right now,” she says, “literally it’s like a disaster in all 50 states.”
More need, but fewer volunteers to accommodate it
It’s not just food donations that non-profits are having to do without. It’s staff, too. Under normal circumstances, food pantries rely on volunteers, many of whom are retired or elderly. But since people over 65 have disproportionately severe symptoms from COVID-19, those staffing resources have dried up. As a result, charitable organizations have had to reduce the number of places where food is distributed.
For example, Three Square, the Las Vegas food bank, has had to suspend food distribution at 170 of its 180 partner organizations, while setting up 21 additional drive-thru distribution sites, according to Larry Scott, its chief operating officer. In a month’s time, the number of sites from which locals in the region can collect food decreased by 83%.
Central Texas Food Bank chief Chubbs says his organization has seen a 70% reduction in volunteers. “One of the biggest challenges that I’ve seen here is how do we balance minimizing the risk of the human resources—our staff and our volunteers—and at the same time, meet that growing demand,” he says.
The Dayton, Ohio food bank where Quarles picked up her rations has also tried to limit people of “advanced age” from volunteering, in an effort to protect their health. At the Ohio drive-thru event on Tuesday, a 73-year-old volunteer confided that he was breaking the age rule, but said he felt like he needed to be helping. “I live alone, I self-isolate at home,” he says. “People need help, and that’s when you want to be out here.”
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Tech Sgt. Shane Hughes—U.S. Air National Guard. U.S. Army Spc. Rose Minton unpacks pallets of food at Wright State University’s Nutter Center in Fairborn, Ohio, on April 21, 2020.
Some states, including Ohio, Washington state, Michigan, and Kentucky, have deployed the National Guard to fill the void left by these older volunteers. Andrew Lynch, a 33-year-old Sergeant who was present at Dayton’s Foodbank, Inc. on April 21, compared his service this week to his 2011 deployment to Afghanistan. “Being able to give back to the community and provide a service or a product at a time of need is very similar to when we were in Afghanistan or Iraq,” he says. Though the setting is different, he explains, the purpose is still to keep people safe.
‘This is not going to be a crisis that is measured in weeks’
Even as mayors and state governors prepare to reopen their cities and states, food bank executives expect the uptick in demand for their services will continue for many months, if not years. The aftermath of the Great Recession offers a bleak guide. In 2008, 15% of U.S. householders were “food insecure,” meaning they lacked consistent access to enough food for an active life, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. It wasn’t until 2018—a decade after the bottom dropped out of the market—that the proportion of food insecure households rebounded to pre-recession levels. There’s reason to think that this recession will have a similarly long tail for those with no financial buffer.
“There are so many people in this community who are one paycheck away from poverty. And they’re going to lose eight paychecks or 10 paychecks. It will take them a long time to come back to a level of financial security and stability that will equate with food security,” says Maehr of the Greater Chicago Food Depository. “This is not going to be a crisis that’s measured in weeks. I fear that this is a crisis that will be measured in months, and possibly years.”
Once stay-at-home orders are lifted and people begin to return to their pre-quarantine lives, Maehr worries that the general public will forget that more than 37 million Americans struggled with hunger before this pandemic even hit U.S. soil. “I am worried about compassion fatigue,” she says. “I am very worried about what happens when the news camera crews leave.”
SNAP doesn’t fill the gap
Food banks are supposed to be a stop gap measure for other safety net programs, like the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), colloquially known as food stamps. For every meal provided by Feeding America—a national consortium of 200 food banks and 60,000 food pantries and meal programs—SNAP provides 12.
But experts say SNAP is facing shortfalls of its own. Though the program is available to most households with gross monthly incomes at or below 130% of the federal poverty line, the average cost of a meal in 99% of U.S. counties is higher than food stamp benefits allow, according to a 2018 report by the Urban Institute. Monthly, the average recipient is allocated just $127.
The benefits program, which President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law in 1964, is supposed to cover the cost of meals that provide adequate nutrition. But welfare reform in the mid-1990s placed new limits on eligibility, froze the minimum benefit threshold, and reduced the maximum allotments. Since then, the costs of meals that meet the government’s nutritional guidelines have largely outpaced the amount of funding provided.
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Tech Sgt. Shane Hughes—U.S. Air National Guard. A soldier directs traffic during a drive-thru food distribution event at Wright State University’s Nutter Center in Fairborn, Ohio, on April 21, 2020.
Household purchases that may be vital during a viral pandemic—including soap, hand sanitizer, and toilet paper—also can’t be purchased using SNAP, nor can pre-made, protein-rich foods like rotisserie chickens and store-prepared meatloaves.
Still, people are seeking out the assistance in droves. Nearly 12,000 Ohioans signed up for SNAP during the first week of March, a spokesperson for the state’s Department of Jobs and Family Services tells TIME. During the second week of April, 29,334 more signed up. The number of Washington state residents who applied for SNAP benefits during the first full week of April 2020 was also more than double what it was the corresponding week last year, a state employee says. And while Nevada received 19,266 new requests for SNAP benefits in March 2019, the volume increased by 43% to 27,465 applications in March 2020, according to a spokesperson for the state’s Department of Health and Human Services.
But many are running into bureaucratic hurdles getting assistance at all. Generally, recipients have to re-certify they still qualify for SNAP every six to 12 months with corroborating documents such as paystubs and proof of child support. That can be challenging for low-income recipients whose incomes are constantly changing: Gig workers can’t predict how many customers will request meal delivery or rides, bartenders can never be sure their customers will tip fairly, and many low-income workers piece together one-off jobs to get by.
“SNAP is built as if people’s incomes are always stable, but people’s incomes are going up and down all the time,” says Mariana Chilton, director of Drexel University’s Center for Hunger Free Communities, and former co-chair of the Bipartisan National Commission on Hunger. “You have to go through this terrible type of surveillance machine in order to prove that you’re worthy.”
Aquanna Quarles, the 47-year-old Ohio home health care aide who saw her hours halved a few weeks ago, says she made too much money over the last six months to qualify for full SNAP benefits at this point. About a week ago, she received a letter from the Ohio Department of Jobs and Family Services about her food stamp benefits, she says. “I thought they were gonna be jacking them up a little bit,” she says. “But they lowered them from $194 to $99.”
She’s since received notice that the benefit will go back up. On Wednesday, the USDA announced a 40% increase in food stamp benefits “to ensure that low-income individuals have enough food to feed themselves and their families during this national emergency.” The increase, paired with partial unemployment insurance, should help Quarles get through the crisis, if and when the assistance actually comes through.
Still, Quarles says, she has faith that her luck will soon turn. It just has to. “What I got out of all of this that happened,” she says, “was God is making better for new.”
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Know How the Wholesale Grocery Store Supplier Benefit Your Company
It is very important to stay in touch with the wholesaler store supplier if you reap out the best benefits from them and to expand your business. In this article, you can know the benefits of choosing a wholesaler for your business.
As you are a convenience store owner, you are dedicating an entire lot of energy to making sure that you are getting the right products for meeting the wide range of demands from the customers. Without connecting with the reputed wholesale partner, you can maintain a strong relationship and establish different contacts for various items that range from general merchandise to the packaged and dispensed beverages, tobacco items, food, and groceries.
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Even some of the wholesalers provide you with the cash and carry distribution so that the customers can visit the wholesaler storehouse to get the products at a reasonable rate. A wholesaler can easily make the process easier and simpler for your business management.
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1.      Contacts
As you have already made relationships with the top manufacturers globally, you should spend more time trying to establish your contacts list. With the wholesaler's services, you can give more time to build trust, loyalty, and value with the people who shop from the store.
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One of the best benefits of choosing the wholesale supplier is that they have a huge variety of products they have built over the long years, which helped them make a strong relationship with the customers. The wholesaler can be your one-stop-shop for all your requirements.
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Apart from the one-stop-shop of all your needs and requirements, the wholesaler also offers next-day delivery and doorstep delivery to the retailers. The other distributors can output you on the established delivery cycle of 1-2 weeks which does not offer you such flexibility and how rapidly you can get back the hot-selling items back on the shelves.
4.      Value-Added Programs
As wholesalers always buy items in bulk, they enable the retailers to buy the items at the low price possible. It does not only saves money over the cash and carry option, but this means that you will not have your warehouse facilities for getting the items that you want at a reasonably low price without even maintaining the large inventory at your store.
5.      Data 
Indeed, the customers' demand is always evolving. Most of the reputed wholesalers always keep an eye on what type of products are trending and maintain such a product portfolio to meet the customers' growing needs. In other words, it help them to get an insight into the latest demands and trends, which help to make a big difference in the bottom line.
Apart from these, you should always choose the wholesaler with several years of experience and find the latest trends in the market. If you want to pace with the latest trends and satisfy the customers, choose a reliable wholesaler.
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2020 Gets Even Worse as Citrus and Potatoes Are Recalled Over Potential Listeria Outbreak
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Lemons, limes, and oranges are among the fruits recall after listeria monocytogenes was found on a piece of produce equipment at the Freshouse packing plant
August has been a bad month for produce — among many, many other things. Earlier this month, grocery chains and major producers across the country recalled onions that may have been contaminated with salmonella. As well as being sold raw, the onions were cooked into some ready-to-eat dishes at grocery stores, and according to the New York Times, shoppers at Krogers in Louisiana and Texas were advised to toss out macaroni salad, pasta salad, and chicken salad croissant sandwiches.
Now, another round of produce problems have been reported. A potential listeria contamination has the FDA recalling lemons, limes, oranges, and potatoes, according to CNN. The voluntary recall stems from Listeria monocytogenes being detected on a piece of equipment used to process the produce at Freshouse II LLC, according to an FDA statement. CNN reports that the produce made its way to retailer distribution centers in North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Virginia, as well as to wholesalers in Maryland and North Carolina. Photos of the contaminated produce can be found here.
The company wrote in its statement that the recall was being implemented “out of an abundance of caution.” Though it was voluntary, caution doesn’t seem like an optional measure, considering listeria is most likely to seriously sicken pregnant women, young children, the elderly, and those with compromised immune systems — many of the same demographics already at a heightened risk of complications from COVID-19.
Cooking is one of very few comforts that remains during a terrifying pandemic and a devastating economic crisis, and recalls like these are an unpleasant reminder that our food system — as enormous and seemingly sturdy as it is — begins to fall apart when major suppliers and producers face issues on farms and in warehouses. It was a reminder delivered to consumers when workers squeezed together in meatpacking plants began contracting COVID-19 at an alarming rate. There was fear that the entire meat industry would shudder to a halt. Even then, concerns were largely about the supply chain, not the workers becoming sick in facilities as the president signed an executive order demanding they remain open.
It’s easy enough to think about food without thinking about the way it’s produced, or the people who do the producing. It’s calming to sink into the couch as a pot of stew bubbles away on the stove, blissfully disconnecting from our upsetting reality, if even just for an hour. But there’s no way to really, truly disconnect, when a bad lemon or a no-good potato might be sitting on the counter.
Maybe September will be kinder to the produce aisle.
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Thomson International Onions Recall Linked to US-Canada Salmonella Outbreak
In Canada, Sysco has announced a recall of red onions. Now, in the US, Thomson International, Inc. has initiated its own recall. FDA’s traceback investigation is ongoing but has identified Thomson International, Inc. of Bakersfield, CA as a likely source of potentially contaminated red onions.  Here is what we know about the Thomson International Onions Recall:
About the Thomson International Onions Recall
Thompson International Onions have been linked to the growing US Salmonella outbreak.  The CDC warns Americans about red onions, white onions, yellow onions, and sweet onion varietals from Thompson International Inc.
What Is Thompson International, Inc.?
Based in Bakersfield, California, Thompson International Inc. grows and packs yellow, white and red onions. Thomson International sells to retailers, wholesalers, food service operations and processors throughout North America and exports onions overseas.
Thompson International packs them in 50 pound or 25 pound sacks or 40 pound cartons.
Thomson International, Inc. has notified FDA that it will be recalling all varieties of onions that could have come in contact with potentially contaminated red onions, due to the risk of cross-contamination. This recall would include red, white, yellow, and sweet onions from Thomson International, Inc. Recall information will be made public as soon as it is available from Thomson International, Inc.
Although the investigation has determined that red onions are the likely source of this outbreak, Thomson International, Inc. has notified FDA that it will be recalling all varieties of onions that could have come in contact with potentially contaminated red onions, due to the risk of cross-contamination. This recall would include red, white, yellow, and sweet onions from Thomson International, Inc. Recall information will be made public as soon as it is available from Thomson International, Inc.
Which States Are Affected in the Onion Salmonella Outbreak?
The Onion Salmonella Outbreak continues to grow.  59 Americans have been hospitalized.  396 Americans have contracted Salmonella infections in the Onion Salmonella Outbreak.
Current state case counts are: Alaska (6), Arizona (14), California (49), Colorado (10), Florida (3), Idaho (5), Illinois (10), Indiana (2), Iowa (15), Kansas (1), Kentucky (1), Maine (4), Maryland (1), Michigan (23), Minnesota (10), Missouri (6), Montana (33), Nebraska (5), Nevada (5), New York (4), North Carolina (3), North Dakota (5), Ohio (7), Oregon (71), Pennsylvania (2), South Carolina (1), South Dakota (11), Tennessee (5), Texas (1), Utah (61), Virginia (4), Washington (2), Wisconsin (5), Wyoming (11).
Recommendations from the FDA
The FDA notified the public of their recommendations for this outbreak, as follows:
“Advice for consumers, restaurants, and retailers: Consumers, restaurants, and retailers should not eat, sell, or serve red, white, yellow, or sweet onions from Thomson International, Inc. or products containing such onions. If you cannot tell if your onion is from Thomson International Inc., or your food product contains such onions, you should not eat, sell, or serve it, and should throw it out.
FDA recommends that anyone who received or suspects having received onions from Thomson International, Inc. use extra vigilance in cleaning and sanitizing any surfaces and containers that may have come in contact with these products to reduce the risk of cross-contamination. This includes cutting boards, slicers, countertops, refrigerators, and storage bins.
Consumers who have symptoms of Salmonella infection should contact their health care provider. Most people with salmonellosis develop diarrhea, fever, and abdominal cramps. More severe cases of salmonellosis may include a high fever, aches, headaches, lethargy, a rash, blood in the urine or stool, and in some cases may become fatal.
Suppliers and Distributors: Suppliers, distributors and others in the supply chain should not use, ship or sell red, white, yellow, or sweet onions from Thomson International, Inc. or food products containing such onions. Suppliers and distributors that re-package raw onions should use extra vigilance in cleaning any surfaces and storage areas that may have come into contact with onions from Thomson International, Inc. If there has been potential cross contamination or mixing of onions from other sources with onions from Thomson International, Inc., suppliers and distributors should discard all comingled and potentially cross-contaminated product.”
About Salmonella
Salmonella infection (salmonellosis) is a common bacterial disease that affects the intestinal tract. Salmonella bacteria typically live in animal and human intestines and are shed through feces. Humans become infected most frequently through contaminated water or food.
Symptoms of a  Salmonella infection, called salmonellosis, typically start 6 to 72 hours after exposure to Salmonella bacteria from an infected animal, person or contaminated product.
Symptoms include:
fever
chills
diarrhea
abdominal cramps
headache
nausea
vomiting
These symptoms usually last for 4 to 7 days. In healthy people, salmonellosis often clears up without treatment, but sometimes antibiotics may be required. In some cases, severe illness may occur and hospitalization may be required.
Diagnosing salmonellosis requires testing a clinical specimen (such as stool or blood) from an infected person to distinguish it from other illnesses that can cause diarrhea, fever, and abdominal cramps. Once Salmonella is identified in the specimen, additional testing can be done to further characterize the Salmonella.
How Can You Keep Your Family Safe From the Onion Salmonella Outbreak?
Americans should not eat, serve, or sell any onions from Thomson International Inc. or products made with these onions. The CDC recommends that people:
At home, check your refrigerator and kitchen for any of these onions or fresh foods made with them.
Check the package or look for a sticker on an onion to see if it is from Thomson International, Inc. If it is, don’t eat it. Throw it away.
If you can’t tell where your onions are from, don’t eat them. Throw them away.
If you made any foods with onions and you don’t know where they are from, do not eat them. Throw them away, even if no one got sick.
Wash and sanitize any surfaces that may have come in contact with onions or their packaging, such as countertops, refrigerator drawers, knives, and cutting boards.
When you eat out or shop for food, check with restaurants and grocery stores to make sure they are not serving or selling onions from Thomson International Inc., or fresh foods prepared with them.
If they don’t know where their onions are from, don’t buy the product.
People sickened in this outbreak reported eating raw onions in freshly prepared foods, including salads, sandwiches, wraps, salsas, and dips.
What Should You Do If You’re Already Sick?
Take these steps if you have symptoms of a Salmonella infection:
Talk to your healthcare provider.
Write down what you ate in the week before you started to get sick.
Report your illness to your local health department.
The health department will likely call you for an interview to ask you about foods you ate in the week before you got sick.
Assist public health investigators by answering their questions when they contact you.
How The Lange Law Firm Can Help
Our mission is to help families who have been harmed by contaminated food or water.  When corporations cause Salmonella food poisoning outbreaks, we use the law to hold them accountable.  The Lange Law Firm is one of the only law firms in the nation focused on representing families in food poisoning lawsuits.
If you got sick in this latest Thomson International Onions Recall and are interested in making a legal claim for compensation, we can help.  Our Salmonella lawyer can help you pursue compensation for your Salmonella food poisoning.  Call us for a free no obligation legal consultation at (833) 330-3663 or send us an e-mail here.
By: Candess Zona-Mendola
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Many Coffee Shops Are Starting To Reopen. What Comes Next?
Those operating coffee shops in the United States—a country with very little in the way of viable safety nets for small business—have a big question on their minds this spring. When, and how, will it be safe to reopen amidst the COVID-19 pandemic? From Georgia to San Francisco, from Texas to New York City, all eyes are on the canaries in the coffee coal mine to see what returning to service (and the “new normal”) will look like. Sprudge spoke with a few of these operators to find out how they’ve approached reopening as safely as possible—including those for whom that decision means continuing to wait.
California-based Equator Coffees, which operates eight cafes in the Bay Area and Marin County, initially closed all of its locations on March 16. Since then, they’ve gradually and cautiously reopened most locations for adjusted to-go service. The company learned a number of lessons along the journey, says Director of Retail Tina Malouf. Adjusting to new consumer behavior was one of those.
“We’re not selling a lot of food, so [that’s been] some good learning for us in navigating our ordering systems,” says Malouf, who adds that vendors across nearly all aspects of their business have also been affected, requiring the company to be truly nimble. “Every time we reopen a cafe it takes us a little longer because we have vendors that have to increase their inventory or maybe have to bring back someone they’ve furloughed. Dairy, paper products, bread, towels, cleaning companies—all of those folks have been impacted in one way or another.”
Like many who’ve reopened, or remained open (including their SF neighbors, Ritual) Equator has added a pandemic-specific line of sundries to items available for purchase besides coffee, like eggs, nondairy milks, and even TP.
“We’re also offering our regular milk, gloves, toilet paper… just small things that we carry in our inventory that we can get from our supplier that customers might be having a hard time getting from their grocery store,” said Malouf, who added that hard-to-procure flour and yeast were soon to be added to that list.
As for what service looks like, payment is 100% contactless using the Equator app. (“We absolutely will not take cash,” says Malouf.) Customers place their orders in advance and stand on six-foot-apart tigers (the company’s mascot) painted on the ground while they wait for their orders and receipts to be set out at a central collection point.
Tiger-shaped distancing markers outside Equator
Other businesses have adopted variations on this theme, like Intelligentsia. Their reopening process began the week of April 27th, with doors open at the brand’s Silver Lake location in Los Angeles, its Broadway location in Chicago, and its Watertown, Mass. cafes with reduced hours and a two-window order-pickup system. (The company’s Austin, Texas location opened again on May 6th.)
Phase One of Intelligentsia’s reopening, describes Vice President of Retail, Lori Haughey, is “Step right up to my window, I’d really appreciate it if you’d order online or through our app, no cash, I’ve got my plexiglass, you are not coming into my coffee bar for any reason.” she laughs. Customers pick up drinks at the next window, and places to wait a safe distance apart are delineated with sidewalk tape. Those who ordered ahead are welcome to directly approach the pickup window and will be handed their coffee. (Haughey says customers prefer this to collecting at a central spot where they don’t know who may have handled the drink.)
Haughey credits both the larger coffee community and Intelligentsia’s wholesale partners for providing an initial road map towards reestablishing business.
“We were one of the companies that just completely shuttered, unlike quite a few that decided to continue to forge on—I respect the hell out of them and I respect that effort to just survive,” said Haughey. “I feel that we have really been able to learn from many individuals out there that were brave enough to stay open and learn from them what’s right, wrong, what have they learned. So many of our wholesale partners have been instrumental in sharing with us—much of the time we feel like we’re the teacher and they’re the students but right now we’re on the other side of that and they’ve been gracious with their information.”
Malouf, too, emphasizes the importance that businesses can have on the wider community—both in terms of influencing other businesses through their practices, and in terms of the public health.
“I would just say that the amount of responsibility around ensuring that the folks around your environment are socially distancing, you cannot underestimate the power of that, how critical it is. People are watching,” says Malouf. “So to anyone who’s thinking about reopening they need to be prepared for that, and be prepared to tell customers, ‘hey six feet apart please’.”
As far as staffing, both Haughey and Malouf stress that only employees who have been eager to return to work are being tapped to come back. “When we called it was an immediate yes in all cases so far,” said Haughey. “But if somebody says, ‘I’m just not comfortable with it yet,’ we’re very empathetic, we’re going to put you closer to the bottom of the list until this all lifts.”
In other parts of the country, shopowners may be more tentative. In New York City, which has seen the largest COVID-19 infection rate and loss of life in the country, Everyman Espresso co-owner Sam Lewontin says his shops will not reopen anytime soon.
“As far as we can tell, while social distancing measures are having the hoped-for effect, we’re not yet even remotely out of the woods. We’re having regular phone meetings about it, but it’s still very much a waiting game on our end,” says Lewontin.
Down South, though Georgia Governor Brian Kemp has allowed the state’s shelter-in-place order to expire, Spiller Park‘s busy Toco Hills location has reopened for curbside only service—but has no schedule to reopen “dine in” coffee service anytime soon, says co-owner Dale Donchey.
“As for a full-on reopen, I’m most likely going to wait til a vaccine is out,” says Donchey, who co-owns the two Spiller Park locations with chef Hugh Acheson. “That time frame might change. But I don’t see our infection rate dropping anytime soon with the state being free to wander this early. I think Kemp has only one box on this checklist and it’s cutting unemployment costs.”
“The good news is that our customers know we want to keep them safely caffeinated, fed, and entertained without being able to sit inside,” says Donchey. “The response has been a joyful one. And it’s kind of fun to offer them a completely reimagined business with new menu items. It’s like opening for the first time after five years,” he adds.
“We’ve all gotten real good at smiling with our eyes, too.”
Liz Clayton is the Associate Editor at Sprudge Media Network. Read more Liz Clayton on Sprudge. 
Photos courtesy Intelligentsia Coffee, Equator Coffees, and Spiller Park.
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Many Coffee Shops Are Starting To Reopen. What Comes Next?
Those operating coffee shops in the United States—a country with very little in the way of viable safety nets for small business—have a big question on their minds this spring. When, and how, will it be safe to reopen amidst the COVID-19 pandemic? From Georgia to San Francisco, from Texas to New York City, all eyes are on the canaries in the coffee coal mine to see what returning to service (and the “new normal”) will look like. Sprudge spoke with a few of these operators to find out how they’ve approached reopening as safely as possible—including those for whom that decision means continuing to wait.
California-based Equator Coffees, which operates eight cafes in the Bay Area and Marin County, initially closed all of its locations on March 16. Since then, they’ve gradually and cautiously reopened most locations for adjusted to-go service. The company learned a number of lessons along the journey, says Director of Retail Tina Malouf. Adjusting to new consumer behavior was one of those.
“We’re not selling a lot of food, so [that’s been] some good learning for us in navigating our ordering systems,” says Malouf, who adds that vendors across nearly all aspects of their business have also been affected, requiring the company to be truly nimble. “Every time we reopen a cafe it takes us a little longer because we have vendors that have to increase their inventory or maybe have to bring back someone they’ve furloughed. Dairy, paper products, bread, towels, cleaning companies—all of those folks have been impacted in one way or another.”
Like many who’ve reopened, or remained open (including their SF neighbors, Ritual) Equator has added a pandemic-specific line of sundries to items available for purchase besides coffee, like eggs, nondairy milks, and even TP.
“We’re also offering our regular milk, gloves, toilet paper… just small things that we carry in our inventory that we can get from our supplier that customers might be having a hard time getting from their grocery store,” said Malouf, who added that hard-to-procure flour and yeast were soon to be added to that list.
As for what service looks like, payment is 100% contactless using the Equator app. (“We absolutely will not take cash,” says Malouf.) Customers place their orders in advance and stand on six-foot-apart tigers (the company’s mascot) painted on the ground while they wait for their orders and receipts to be set out at a central collection point.
Tiger-shaped distancing markers outside Equator
Other businesses have adopted variations on this theme, like Intelligentsia. Their reopening process began the week of April 27th, with doors open at the brand’s Silver Lake location in Los Angeles, its Broadway location in Chicago, and its Watertown, Mass. cafes with reduced hours and a two-window order-pickup system. (The company’s Austin, Texas location opened again on May 6th.)
Phase One of Intelligentsia’s reopening, describes Vice President of Retail, Lori Haughey, is “Step right up to my window, I’d really appreciate it if you’d order online or through our app, no cash, I’ve got my plexiglass, you are not coming into my coffee bar for any reason.” she laughs. Customers pick up drinks at the next window, and places to wait a safe distance apart are delineated with sidewalk tape. Those who ordered ahead are welcome to directly approach the pickup window and will be handed their coffee. (Haughey says customers prefer this to collecting at a central spot where they don’t know who may have handled the drink.)
Haughey credits both the larger coffee community and Intelligentsia’s wholesale partners for providing an initial road map towards reestablishing business.
“We were one of the companies that just completely shuttered, unlike quite a few that decided to continue to forge on—I respect the hell out of them and I respect that effort to just survive,” said Haughey. “I feel that we have really been able to learn from many individuals out there that were brave enough to stay open and learn from them what’s right, wrong, what have they learned. So many of our wholesale partners have been instrumental in sharing with us—much of the time we feel like we’re the teacher and they’re the students but right now we’re on the other side of that and they’ve been gracious with their information.”
Malouf, too, emphasizes the importance that businesses can have on the wider community—both in terms of influencing other businesses through their practices, and in terms of the public health.
“I would just say that the amount of responsibility around ensuring that the folks around your environment are socially distancing, you cannot underestimate the power of that, how critical it is. People are watching,” says Malouf. “So to anyone who’s thinking about reopening they need to be prepared for that, and be prepared to tell customers, ‘hey six feet apart please’.”
As far as staffing, both Haughey and Malouf stress that only employees who have been eager to return to work are being tapped to come back. “When we called it was an immediate yes in all cases so far,” said Haughey. “But if somebody says, ‘I’m just not comfortable with it yet,’ we’re very empathetic, we’re going to put you closer to the bottom of the list until this all lifts.”
In other parts of the country, shopowners may be more tentative. In New York City, which has seen the largest COVID-19 infection rate and loss of life in the country, Everyman Espresso co-owner Sam Lewontin says his shops will not reopen anytime soon.
“As far as we can tell, while social distancing measures are having the hoped-for effect, we’re not yet even remotely out of the woods. We’re having regular phone meetings about it, but it’s still very much a waiting game on our end,” says Lewontin.
Down South, though Georgia Governor Brian Kemp has allowed the state’s shelter-in-place order to expire, Spiller Park‘s busy Toco Hills location has reopened for curbside only service—but has no schedule to reopen “dine in” coffee service anytime soon, says co-owner Dale Donchey.
“As for a full-on reopen, I’m most likely going to wait til a vaccine is out,” says Donchey, who co-owns the two Spiller Park locations with chef Hugh Acheson. “That time frame might change. But I don’t see our infection rate dropping anytime soon with the state being free to wander this early. I think Kemp has only one box on this checklist and it’s cutting unemployment costs.”
“The good news is that our customers know we want to keep them safely caffeinated, fed, and entertained without being able to sit inside,” says Donchey. “The response has been a joyful one. And it’s kind of fun to offer them a completely reimagined business with new menu items. It’s like opening for the first time after five years,” he adds.
“We’ve all gotten real good at smiling with our eyes, too.”
Liz Clayton is the Associate Editor at Sprudge Media Network. Read more Liz Clayton on Sprudge. 
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Kondor83/Shutterstock Lemons, limes, and oranges are among the fruits recall after listeria monocytogenes was found on a piece of produce equipment at the Freshouse packing plant August has been a bad month for produce — among many, many other things. Earlier this month, grocery chains and major producers across the country recalled onions that may have been contaminated with salmonella. As well as being sold raw, the onions were cooked into some ready-to-eat dishes at grocery stores, and according to the New York Times, shoppers at Krogers in Louisiana and Texas were advised to toss out macaroni salad, pasta salad, and chicken salad croissant sandwiches. Now, another round of produce problems have been reported. A potential listeria contamination has the FDA recalling lemons, limes, oranges, and potatoes, according to CNN. The voluntary recall stems from Listeria monocytogenes being detected on a piece of equipment used to process the produce at Freshouse II LLC, according to an FDA statement. CNN reports that the produce made its way to retailer distribution centers in North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Virginia, as well as to wholesalers in Maryland and North Carolina. Photos of the contaminated produce can be found here. The company wrote in its statement that the recall was being implemented “out of an abundance of caution.” Though it was voluntary, caution doesn’t seem like an optional measure, considering listeria is most likely to seriously sicken pregnant women, young children, the elderly, and those with compromised immune systems — many of the same demographics already at a heightened risk of complications from COVID-19. Cooking is one of very few comforts that remains during a terrifying pandemic and a devastating economic crisis, and recalls like these are an unpleasant reminder that our food system — as enormous and seemingly sturdy as it is — begins to fall apart when major suppliers and producers face issues on farms and in warehouses. It was a reminder delivered to consumers when workers squeezed together in meatpacking plants began contracting COVID-19 at an alarming rate. There was fear that the entire meat industry would shudder to a halt. Even then, concerns were largely about the supply chain, not the workers becoming sick in facilities as the president signed an executive order demanding they remain open. It’s easy enough to think about food without thinking about the way it’s produced, or the people who do the producing. It’s calming to sink into the couch as a pot of stew bubbles away on the stove, blissfully disconnecting from our upsetting reality, if even just for an hour. But there’s no way to really, truly disconnect, when a bad lemon or a no-good potato might be sitting on the counter. Maybe September will be kinder to the produce aisle. from Eater - All https://ift.tt/2DIz45N
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