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Coronavirus found on frozen shrimp packaging but risk from food low, China says | South China Morning Post
Chinese customs suspends imports from three companies and urges Ecuador to step up food safety standards
Food safety deputy director says the likelihood of being infected with Covid-19 via food remains very small but consumers must be vigilant
Frozen seafood products made of imported shrimps are seen inside a sealed freezer at a supermarket following a new outbreak of the coronavirus disease in Beijing, China on June 19, 2020. Authorities testing imported food have since found six Covid-19 positive samples from nearly 223,000 samples.
Chinese authorities found coronavirus on the packaging and in the container of imported frozen shrimps, but the food safety chief said on Friday the discovery did not mean the virus could be transmitted via food packaging.
Bi Kexin, director general of the Import and Export Food Safety Bureau under China’s General Administration of Customs, said in Beijing that six Covid-19 positive samples were found from nearly 223,000 samples taken from imported frozen food, the interior and exterior of the packaging and the surroundings.
Authorities have conducted more coronavirus tests on imported food after a resurgence of Covid-19 cases in Beijing in mid-June linked to a food market where the coronavirus was found on a cutting board used for imported salmon. Experts have said the fish itself was unlikely to carry the virus.
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A big bag of frozen shrimp in our freezer is the beginning of a number of meals in my house.
Chinese customs suspends imports from three companies and urges Ecuador to step up food safety standards
Food safety deputy director says the likelihood of being infected with Covid-19 via food remains very small but consumers must be vigilant
Frozen seafood products made of imported shrimps are seen inside a sealed freezer at a supermarket following a new outbreak of the coronavirus disease in Beijing, China on June 19, 2020. Authorities testing imported food have since found six Covid-19 positive samples from nearly 223,000 samples.
Chinese authorities found coronavirus on the packaging and in the container of imported frozen shrimps, but the food safety chief said on Friday the discovery did not mean the virus could be transmitted via food packaging.
Bi Kexin, director general of the Import and Export Food Safety Bureau under China’s General Administration of Customs, said in Beijing that six Covid-19 positive samples were found from nearly 223,000 samples taken from imported frozen food, the interior and exterior of the packaging and the surroundings.
Authorities have conducted more coronavirus tests on imported food after a resurgence of Covid-19 cases in Beijing in mid-June linked to a food market where the coronavirus was found on a cutting board used for imported salmon. Experts have said the fish itself was unlikely to carry the virus.
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A big bag of frozen shrimp in our freezer is the beginning of a number of meals in my house.