? In order to prevent the risk of the new crown pneumonia epidemic through the import of cold chain food introduction, the customs department has carried out the import of cold chain food of the new crown virus nucleic acid detection work. As of 24:00 on the 9th, the national customs **** sampling test samples 227,934. Among them, the frozen South American white shrimp produced by three enterprises in Ecuador *** 1 container inner wall samples and 5 outer packaging samples were detected positive for new coronavirus nucleic acid. The other 227,928 samples tested all negative.
Bixin said, the detection of positive samples, nucleic acid sequence analysis and expert judgment, the test results suggest that Ecuador the above three companies products of the container environment, the risk of contamination of goods packaging by the new crown virus. The experts concluded that the detection results do not mean that the product is infectious, but reflects the implementation of food safety management system of the relevant enterprises are not in place.
Bixin said, in order to protect the health of consumers, the General Administration of Customs decided to suspend the Ecuadorian three companies involved in the immediate suspension of the qualification of registration in China, suspension of the import of their products, the temporary detention of goods to take return, destruction and other processing measures. Bi Kexin said, the General Administration of Customs will further strengthen the import of cold chain food source control, strict port inspection and quarantine, to protect import and export food safety.
? Import and Export Food Safety Bureau of the General Administration of Customs Bi Kexin also introduced: the World Health Organization believes that, according to previous experience in the investigation of coronavirus-induced outbreaks, there is no case of transmission to humans through food consumption occurs. However, with the rapid development of the epidemic outside the country, especially in some countries with the epidemic resumption of work, the risk of contamination of the cold chain link increased. The General Administration of Customs has strengthened the source control of imported cold chain food for this reason:
? Take measures to suspend the import of products. In response to the recent outbreak of aggregated infections in meat and aquatic products enterprises in some countries, we have taken measures to suspend the import of their products, and have now suspended the import of products from 23 overseas meat producers such as Germany, the United States, Brazil and the United Kingdom. Many countries and enterprises actively cooperate, these 23 enterprises, there are 10 according to the requirements of the Chinese side, the export enterprises independently proposed, independent suspension of export measures to China.