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High Liner Foods Provides COVID-19 Operational Update for its Portsmouth Plant
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n\n\n\nHigh Liner Foods Provides COVID-19 Operational Update for its Portsmouth Plant\n\n/* Style Definitions */\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCanada NewsWire\nPORTSMOUTH, NH, April 20, 2020\n\n\n\nPORTSMOUTH, NH, April 20, 2020 /CNW/ - High Liner Foods Incorporated (TSX: HLF) (\"High Liner Foods\" or \"the Company\"), a leading North American value-added frozen seafood company, today provided a COVID-19 operational update for its Portsmouth Plant. \n\"Our priority is the health and safety of our employees who are doing essential work supplying food to families across North America,\" said Rod Hepponstall, President and Chief Executive Officer of High Liner Foods. \"We are maximizing all available resources to safeguard our people and ensure a steady supply of frozen seafood to meet the needs of retailers and consumers across North America during this unprecedented time.\"\nThe Company advised that it has temporarily suspended all production at its Portsmouth plant where it has confirmed positive COVID-19 cases. High Liner Foods is activating its COVID-19 response plan including deep cleaning, contact tracing and risk assessment. High Liner Foods will resume operations at its Portsmouth plant as soon as it is responsible to do so. In order to minimize impact to supply, the Company has already started redirecting a portion of production from its Portsmouth plant to its Newport News and Lunenburg plants. \nHigh Liner Foods notes that government experts in Canada and the U.S have made it clear that COVID-19 is not a foodborne illness and there is currently no evidence that food is a likely source or route of transmission of COVID-19. \nAcross all of its production facilities, High Liner Foods is adhering to guidance issued by all government agencies including the U.S. Centre for Disease Control and Health Canada. The Company is also collaborating with the food regulators and local public health authorities and supplementing its normal health and safety procedures with enhanced daily sanitation in its plants and use of standard personal protective equipment that protects empl...