On October 31, Anqiu City, Shandong Province notified the “influx of positive frozen pork from other places”, stating that the wholesale and retail center involved had been eliminated and the relevant market stalls tested negative.
"On the one hand, we checked all market personnel and performed nucleic acid tests overnight. On the other hand, we also issued notices in various streets and villages to let citizens who have purchased related products take the initiative to test. The results were all negative. "The CBN reporter learned from the Anqiu City Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
On October 30, the official Weibo of "Anqiu Release" announced that a batch of frozen pork imported from Brazil that tested positive for nucleic acid in the cold chain food in Yantai had flowed into Anqiu City.
From October 4th to 6th, citizens and their families who purchase pork at the "Shengxin Meat Wholesale and Retail Center" of Xinniu Market should take the initiative to register and report to their communities and units.
"This batch of goods entered the customs on September 16, and the customs inspection was negative on September 17, and there is a written inspection certificate." A staff member of the Anqiu City Epidemic Prevention and Control Headquarters told the First Financial Reporter, October 30 In the early morning of the day, the department received a call from the relevant departments of Weifang City, stating that a batch of cold chain food packaging in Yantai tested positive and had flowed into the Anqiu market.
"Sampling inspections are not full inspections, so there may be parts that were not inspected at the beginning." The staff member analyzed.
However, he said that he did not know whether the frozen pork was directly imported from Yantai Port and to which regions.
According to the previous "Yantai Release" notice, on the afternoon of October 29, Yantai received a letter from a foreign city that the city found a sample of imported frozen pork packaging that tested positive for new coronavirus nucleic acid during a sampling inspection of imported cold chain food. May be associated with imported products from related companies in our city.
All related products are temporarily sealed, and all related contacts are subject to isolation and observation.
As of 11 o'clock on October 30, the nucleic acid test results of collected personnel, products, outer packaging, and external environment samples were all negative.
On October 17, the official website of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention released a message that when the source of the Qingdao epidemic was traced, the new coronavirus was isolated from the outer packaging of cold chain food.
This is the first time that the live new coronavirus has been isolated on the outer packaging of cold-chain food, and it has been confirmed that contact with the outer packaging contaminated by the new coronavirus can cause infection.
A reporter from China Business News found that some provinces and cities in China currently implement 100% nucleic acid testing on imported cold chain foods.
For example, at the Beijing Municipal Epidemic Prevention and Control Conference held on September 2, Gao Ruifeng, Deputy Commissioner of Beijing Customs, introduced that Beijing Customs strictly supervises imported cold-chain foods and treats all cold-chain foods imported from Beijing ports and from high-risk countries ( For other commodities in the region), 100% of the external packaging, cargo sampling and nucleic acid testing of the new coronavirus.
A reporter from China Business News learned from relevant people that Yantai has not yet made this request.
On the afternoon of October 31, a reporter from China Business News asked the Yantai Epidemic Prevention and Control Headquarters on the above-mentioned related issues, and received a response stating that “it is subject to official information, other inconvenient disclosure”.
Shandong Rushan previously announced that on October 29, Rushan City found a positive test for the new coronavirus nucleic acid in a sample of imported frozen pork products and outer packaging samples sold to the city during a routine random inspection of imported cold chain foods.
The frozen meat products and transportation vehicles involved are all sealed, the products and the environment are eliminated, and all close contacts are quarantined.
All the quarantined persons tested negative.
An insider of the Anqiu City Health and Health System said that the frozen pork referred to in Rushan City and Yantai City should be the same batch.
On October 31, a reporter from China Business News called the public hotlines of Weifang City (Anqiu City) and Weihai City (Rushan City) and received a response saying that, except for Anqiu and Rushan, other areas of the two cities have not received similar Epidemic notification.
Author: Machen Chen