China has stepped up controls on imports of frozen foods amid the pandemic.
Beijing:
Health officials in the eastern Chinese city of Qingdao have discovered coronavirus contamination on some packages stored by a seafood importer after two of its managers tested positive for the virus but did not show any symptoms.
China has stepped up controls on frozen food imports and banned those on some foreign meat processing plants amid the global pandemic.
Thursday’s results came during a routine test of company staff, although none of the 147 close contacts of the two men involved tested positive, the Qingdao Municipal Health Commission said in a statement. communicated.
The importer’s products and facilities generated 51 positive test results, but no contaminated product was marketed, the commission said, without identifying the items or their origins.
Chinese customs have threatened to suspend imports for a week from companies whose frozen food products test positive for the virus, with violators for the third time facing four weeks.
Heavy traces of the virus were found in the meat and seafood sections of a market in the capital Beijing which was the site of an epidemic in June.
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