China has found the new coronavirus on beef and tripe. (Representative)
Beijing:
The city of Jinan in eastern China said it found the novel coronavirus on beef and tripe, as well as on the packaging of these products, from Brazil, New Zealand and Bolivia as China is stepping up testing of frozen foods.
The importers were a unit of Guotai International Group and Shanghai Zhongli Development Trade, the Jinan Municipal Health Commission said on Saturday in a statement on its website.
The ports of entry were Yangshan Port Customs in Shanghai and Outer Port Customs, he said. The statement from the city of Shandong Province did not name the companies that shipped the products.
More than 7,500 people who may have come in contact with the contaminated products and other related staff have tested negative for the virus responsible for COVID-19, he said.
Last week, Chinese officials discovered the coronavirus on the packaging of Saudi shrimp in Lanzhou city, Brazilian beef in Wuhan city, and Argentine beef in Shandong and Jiangsu provinces.
China is the world‘s largest beef buyer, and Brazil and Argentina are its biggest suppliers.
Zhengzhou, the capital of central China’s Henan Province, detected coronavirus on the outer packaging of frozen pork from Argentina on Friday, local authorities said in a statement on the social media platform on Saturday evening. WeChat.
The samples that tested positive were from a 24-ton batch of frozen pork that was sent from a cold storage facility in Qingdao Port to a warehouse for a market in Zhengzhou City.
The lot was found to be contaminated when scanned before the goods could enter the warehouse, the government said.
The World Health Organization says the risk of catching COVID-19 from frozen foods is low, but China has repeatedly raised alarms after detecting the virus on imported food products, triggering disruptive import bans.
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