InvestmentsTop Global NewsMarketsReal Estate Coronavirus spreads among fruit and vegetable packers, worrying US officials By financialnews_rlv83x - June 11, 2020 0 69 From apple packing houses in Washington state to farm workers in Florida and a California county known as “the world’s salad bowl,” outbreaks of the novel coronavirus are emerging at U.S. fruit and vegetable farms and packing plants.