{"id":84877,"date":"2020-10-28T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-27T15:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/english-avoid-a-house-of-horrors-this-halloween\/"},"modified":"2020-10-28T08:33:02","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T12:33:02","slug":"evite-una-casa-del-terror-este-halloween","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/evite-una-casa-del-terror-este-halloween\/","title":{"rendered":"Avoid a House of Horrors this Halloween"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><![CDATA[\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]]><\/style>\n<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">ANN ARBOR, Mich.<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">Oct. 27, 2020<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212;\u00a0Trick-or-treating is a high-risk activity according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Yet, even during the pandemic, 57 percent of U.S. adults still plan to hand out candy.<sup>i <\/sup>As COVID-19 cases continue to rise across the country, public health experts at NSF International are calling on families and communities to find safer ways to celebrate the season. <\/p>\n<div id=\"prni_dvprnejpg48b3left\" style=\"WIDTH: 100%; TEXT-ALIGN: left\" dir=\"ltr\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"prnejpg48b3left\" title=\" \" style=\"HEIGHT: 400px; WIDTH: 283px\" border=\"0\" alt=\" \" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/1321129\/NSF_Halloween_Infographic.jpg\" imagelabel=\"General\"\/><\/div>\n<p>To support healthy practices across the country, NSF International is encouraging anyone who wants to actively opt-out of trick-or-treating to display a ghost in their window \u2013 a seasonal symbol that revelers should avoid that household. <\/p>\n<p>To further help households, NSF has created a series of simple ghost graphics that can be <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=2962735-1&amp;h=2392345559&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fnsfinternational.widencollective.com%2Fc%2Fmj6igkd3&amp;a=downloaded\" rel=\"nofollow\">downloaded<\/a> from its website for free. By placing these graphics on doors or windows, households can limit their own risk of exposure this Halloween \u2013 and possibly save lives in the process. <\/p>\n<p>Paul Medeiros,\u00a0Managing Director of Consulting and Technical Services at NSF International, commented: &#8220;Halloween is a fun time of year, but the coronavirus is truly scary. You can still enjoy Halloween without putting yourself and others at risk. Remember there are alternate ways to celebrate, safely. To help families and communities stay safe this Halloween, we recommend avoiding trick-or-treaters and keeping doors closed. We hope that displaying these fun, downloadable ghost graphics in windows will help reduce the COVID-19 transmission risk on <span class=\"xn-chron\">October 31<\/span>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>NSF International is playing an important part in reducing the spread of COVID-19 across America through its Checked by NSF program, an independent verification of COVID-19 preventive measures, providing reassurance that the highest level of procedures and protocols are implemented.<\/p>\n<p><b><u>Notes to Editors<br \/><\/u><\/b><b>About NSF International<br \/><\/b>NSF International (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=2962735-1&amp;h=2682544571&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nsf.org%2F&amp;a=nsf.org\" rel=\"nofollow\">nsf.org<\/a>) is an independent, global organization that protects human health by facilitating the development of public health and safety standards, and providing certification and testing services. Separately, we also offer auditing, education, risk management and consulting services. Founded in 1944, NSF is committed to protecting human health and safety worldwide. With operations in 180 countries, NSF International is a Pan American Health Organisation\/World Health Organisation (WHO) Collaborating Center on Food Safety, Water Quality and Indoor Environment.<\/p>\n<p><b><u>Press Contacts<br \/><\/u><\/b><b>Zeno Group <br \/><\/b><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"mailto:zenonsf@zenogroup.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">zenonsf@zenogroup.com<\/a>\u00a0<br \/>+1 (650) 597-7133 <\/p>\n<p><b>NSF International<\/b>\u00a0<br \/><span class=\"xn-person\">Thomas Frey<\/span>, APR <br \/><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"mailto:tfrey@nsf.or\" rel=\"nofollow\">tfrey@nsf.or<\/a><br \/>+1 (734) 214-6242<\/p>\n<p><sup>i<\/sup>\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=2962735-1&amp;h=1821957392&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Finfogram.com%2F1pj56wz5v7dw2xa6lz1011nkvksmwj0wpe6&amp;a=https%3A%2F%2Finfogram.com%2F1pj56wz5v7dw2xa6lz1011nkvksmwj0wpe6\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/infogram.com\/1pj56wz5v7dw2xa6lz1011nkvksmwj0wpe6<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Photo &#8211; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=2962735-1&amp;h=187038032&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fmma.prnewswire.com%2Fmedia%2F1321129%2FNSF_Halloween_Infographic.jpg&amp;a=https%3A%2F%2Fmma.prnewswire.com%2Fmedia%2F1321129%2FNSF_Halloween_Infographic.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/1321129\/NSF_Halloween_Infographic.jpg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>SOURCE  NSF International<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">ANN ARBOR, Mich.<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">Oct. 27, 2020<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212;\u00a0Trick-or-treating is a high-risk activity according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Yet, even during the pandemic, 57 percent of U.S. adults still plan to hand out candy.<sup>i <\/sup>As COVID-19 cases continue to rise across the country, public health experts at NSF International are calling on families and communities to find safer ways to celebrate the season. <\/p>\n<p>&lt;div id=&quot;prni_dvprnejpg48b3left&quot;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":84878,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-salud"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}