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A craft distillery in San Diego County quickly repurposed its production line to manufacture hand sanitizer.

“We're a company of four people and making this transition into a kind of like industrial-commercial hand sanitizer company within a span of a week has had a couple challenges, to say the least,” Rigali said.

The co-founders said government officials were helpful in helping them get FDA approval as a bottler of hand sanitizer within a day.

"Everyone got out of the way for not just us but anyone capable of making a necessary ingredient," Chereskin said. "I like that story because most of the time we talk about government being obstructionist and in this particular case they did a great job."