According to Izvestia with reference to the press service of the department, inspectors seize all livestock products without factory packaging, as well as those that have not undergone heat treatment, which allows them to destroy viruses.
At the same time, as noted in the Rosselkhoznadzor, the import of meat products in baggage from China is already prohibited.
“It is known that all the sick worked on the food market of the city (Wuhan. - RT ) or visited it. It sells seafood, animals, including birds, rabbits and snakes. In this regard, there is a real risk that this disease is a zoonotic infection, that is, the source of the pathogen is a certain type of animal. However, this information has not yet been officially confirmed, ”the Rosselkhoznadzor emphasized.
According to the FCS press service, no customs violations were detected during customs control of passengers from China.
Earlier, an epidemiologist, senior researcher at the Russian Scientific and Methodological Center for the Prevention and Control of AIDS, Oleg Yurin, in an interview with NSN, said whether it is possible to become infected with a coronavirus upon receipt of a parcel.