SPANISH FOOD MANUFACTURERS LEADER WANTS GOVERNMENT HELP TO SUPPLY WORKERS WITH COVID-19 PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT

The leader of Spain’s food manufacturing industry has called on the country’s government to offer more help in supplying personal protective equipment (PPE) to companies who have stayed open during the Covid-19 pandemic to feed consumers staying at home. Mauricio García de Quevedo, director general de la Federación Española de Industrias de Alimentación y Bebidas (FIAB), told just-food that companies and workers in the food and beverage industry (nearly half a million people), “have reacted in an exemplary manner; they have never stopped supplying the ...


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