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The revised guidance adds significant detail to the list of essential critical infrastructure workers, adding specificity to the larger health care, law enforcement, transportation and food and agriculture industries.

“Most of our member companies wanted to stay open, and were staying open under the assumption that they were a part of either the food sector or the health care sector,” said Steve Mister, president and CEO of the Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN), in an interview. “What this does is it makes it clear. So if someone from state law enforcement should show up and ask, 'Why are you open?’ they can directly point to the CISA guidance.”
Mister added, “When the first round of this memo came out, we were pretty confident that we would be included by inference … but it didn’t expressly say dietary supplements. You kind of had to read between the lines to read us into it.”

Many dietary supplement manufacturers were relieved Saturday after the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) within the Department of Homeland Security issued new specific guidance about essential critical infrastructure workers related to the COVID-19, or coronavirus outbreak.
Version 2.0 was issued over the weekend and specifically carved out dietary supplement manufacturers—and a host of other industries—whose employees and operations can be considered exempt from the stay-at-home or shelter-in-place orders sweeping many states.