Sino-Singapore Jingwei Client, January 27th (Yan Shuxin) In previous years, the price of cherries, which cost five or six yuan apiece, plunged because of the news that the nucleic acid test was positive.
On January 26, a reporter from China-Singapore Jingwei found that the price of cherries in Beijing has fallen, and many supermarkets and fruit shops have cut prices for promotions, and some have fallen by more than 50%.
Faced with the sudden "cheery freedom", consumers said they "dare not eat it."
Listen to what the experts say?
In a supermarket chain in Beijing, imported cherries are on sale.
Photo by Yan Shuxin, Sino-Singapore Jingwei
Whole shelf price reduction promotion
On January 22, Jiangsu Wuxi found a positive case of nucleic acid detection on the inner surface of imported cherries.
On the 23rd, Shijiazhuang City found that one tube of nucleic acid test was positive during the routine random inspection of imported cherries.
According to media reports, the price of cherries in Jiaxing, Zhejiang and Nanjing has plunged recently.
On January 26, a reporter from China-Singapore Jingwei visited the Beijing market and found that many supermarkets and fruit shops were reducing the price of cherries, and the prices of cherries in some stores were almost cut in half.
In a supermarket chain, imported cherries are priced at 19.9 yuan per catty, and some are sold at 20.9 yuan per box.
At the beginning of the month, the price of cherries in the supermarket was about 30 yuan/jin.
According to the staff of a supermarket in Chaoyang District, Beijing, the original price of imported cherries at 58.8 yuan per catty, the promotional price is only 26.8 yuan per catty, a drop of 54%.
The promotion is because the opening time is too long and it is no longer fresh than before, and the fresh cherries are still sold at 58.8 yuan/kg.
However, a reporter from Sino-Singapore Jingwei saw in the supermarket that a box of promotional cherries with price tags filled the entire shelf.
The "fresh cherries" in the mouth of the above-mentioned personnel were not placed in a prominent position.
A fruit and vegetable shop owner told the Sino-Singapore Jingwei client that the recent price cuts of cherries were not entirely affected by the positive nucleic acid tests of imported cherries in some regions. Due to factors such as increased supply, the price of cherries was higher this year. It was a lot lower in previous years, but after the news of a positive nucleic acid test came out, it did affect the sales of cherries in the store to some extent.
"There are obviously fewer people buying cherries. In fact, these cherries can be sold in our store. They are all quarantined at different levels. They are not allowed to sell if they are unqualified." The owner of the fruit and vegetable shop said.
A reporter from China-Singapore Jingwei noted that on the online platform, many merchants have also attached a cold-chain disinfection treatment result report on cherries and a negative nucleic acid test report on the product detail page to confirm to consumers that they are sold in the store. The safety of cherries.
An online fruit merchant showed consumers a report on the results of cold chain killing of cherries and a negative nucleic acid test report.
Source: Screenshot of online platform
Cherries are safe to eat like this
"I just placed an order for 5 catties of cherries on the Internet two days ago, and I cancelled the order after seeing the news. I had to worry about the virus when I bought it, so I simply stopped eating." Beijing consumer Ms. Xu said.
However, some netizens expressed regret: "The price of cherries has been cut down this year, and it is hard to achieve the'freedom of cherries', and they can no longer eat them." "You can't afford to eat when you are expensive, but you dare not eat when you are cheap. Still not free".
Professor Yang Zhanqiu of the Institute of Virology of Wuhan University Medical Department said in an interview with the Sino-Singapore Jingwei Client that the nucleic acid test of imported cherries was positive. It may be a live virus, or a dead virus or virus fragments, and not necessarily contagious.
"Although most imported fruits such as cherries are also transported in the cold chain, compared to other cold chain foods such as fish, the storage temperature is higher, generally around 4 degrees. The virus survives at such a temperature for a shorter time. "Yang Zhanqiu said.
According to Yang Zhanqiu, it takes a few days for imported fruits to be transported from abroad to the country. It is difficult to survive even if the surface is infected with a virus under a storage environment of about 4 degrees.
In addition, imported fruits must be strictly eliminated before entering the market.
The State Council's Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism Comprehensive Group previously issued the "Work Plan for Preventive and Comprehensive Disinfection of Imported Cold Chain Foods", which requires the implementation of preventive and comprehensive disinfection treatment before imported cold chain food comes into contact with people in China for the first time.
Zhang Liubo, chief expert of disinfection at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Director of the Disinfection and Infection Control Center of the Environmental Institute, introduced that safe and effective disinfection of the outer packaging surface of imported cold chain food can achieve the inactivation of the new crown pneumonia virus, and then contact the surface after disinfection. The risk is very low.
However, viral nucleic acid may still exist. If the nucleic acid test is still positive after disinfection, the public need not be overly nervous.
Yang Zhanqiu suggested that after consumers buy back imported fruits, they can put them indoors for a period of time and rinse them with running water repeatedly before eating.
"Imported fruits can still be eaten with confidence, consumers don't have to worry too much." (Zhongxin Jingwei APP)
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