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Coronavirus found on more imported frozen shrimp packages
Published on: 2020-07-16
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shrimp 01The outer packaging of imported frozen shrimps in a logistics park in Chongqing Municipality tested positive for COVID-19 on Tuesday.

The latest case came after those reported in two coastal cities - Dalian, Northwest China's Liaoning Province and Xiamen, East China's Fujian Province - raising the urgency of stepping up prevention of imported infections through the food supply chain.

"The anti-epidemic leadership team in Shapingba district in Chongqing city carried out a comprehensive investigation on frozen South American white shrimps imported from Ecuador and found the outer packaging of some products in a cold storage warehouse in the Western Logistics Park tested positive," said a notice issued by the team.

The team said it had wasted no time in sealing the relevant products, asking people who had contact with the products to undergo home quarantines and conducting nucleic acid testing for products, personnel and environment related to the virus discovery.

The local authority declined to give further information when reached by the Global Times on Wednesday.

shrimp 02This incident in Chongqing, an inland city, might suggest that more products were contaminated through the cold chain, compared with previous positive cases that were still sealed in containers when intercepted by customs, Yang Meng, an industry insider, told the Global Times on Wednesday.

"Transportation from a port city to Chongqing might take around three days, and it involves unloading from shipping containers and reloading to the cold chain systems," Yang said.

"It is safe to say that more products have been exposed to COVID-19 cases and they will be harder to track."

Yang, who is also the owner of a seafood importing company, said the cases in inland cities will pose an even bigger threat to his business than previous cases.

China's General Administration of Customs announced on Friday that six positive virus results were found on the outside packaging and inner walls of the containers carrying frozen shrimps that were imported from Ecuador. It then suspended imports from three companies in Ecuador.

又一地进口厄瓜多尔冻虾外包装,检出新冠

重庆市发布情况通报,在沙坪坝区西部物流园一冷库进口冻南美白虾部分外包装检测新冠核酸呈阳性。

针对进口冻白虾外包装多次检出新冠病毒,厄瓜多尔回应称,厄瓜多尔政府近期已同中国政府举行至少四次会见会谈,据该国外长路易斯•加耶戈斯称,厄方已向中国保证,将履行“必要程序”,以确保该国出口到国际市场的产品的安全性。

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