China News Service, November 27th. Sun Wenjian, a spokesperson for the Ministry of Transport, said on the 27th that the Ministry of Transport recently issued the "Guidelines for the Prevention, Control and Disinfection of New Coronavirus in Imported Cold Chain Food Logistics on Highways and Waterways" (hereinafter referred to as the "Guide") , To prevent road and waterway imported cold chain food logistics practitioners and related personnel from being infected by the new crown virus, highlight the key prevention and control links such as loading, unloading, transportation, and strengthen cold chain food disinfection. The four “gates” of information and disposal.
Data map: The staff imported frozen products for sterilization.
Photo courtesy of Guangzhou Market Supervision Administration
The Ministry of Transport held a regular press conference in November on the 27th to introduce the situation of further strengthening the prevention and control of the new crown pneumonia epidemic in cold chain logistics channels, and answer questions from reporters.
"Everyone is paying attention. Recently, many places have reported that the new coronavirus nucleic acid has been tested positive in the outer packaging of imported cold chain foods or in the environment. This has sounded the alarm for us, and has also proposed changes for us to do a good job in winter epidemic prevention and control. High demands," Sun Wenjian said.
He said that the continuous strengthening of "external defense input, internal defense rebound" and "personal co-defense" is the focus of current transportation normalized epidemic prevention and control.
Sun Wenjian pointed out that in order to compact roads, waterways and other imported cold chain food logistics enterprises and related work related to epidemic prevention and control in logistics links, based on the preliminary work, the Ministry of Transport has recently issued the "Highway and Waterway Imported Cold Chain Food Logistics New Coronavirus Technical Guidelines for Prevention, Control and Disinfection.
The "Guide" focuses on preventing road and waterway imported cold chain food logistics employees and related personnel from being infected by the new crown virus, highlighting key prevention and control links such as loading, unloading and transportation, and focusing on strengthening cold chain food disinfection.
At the same time, in the railway, civil aviation, and postal fields, the State Railway Administration, the Civil Aviation Administration of China, and the State Post Bureau are required to further deploy and implement in accordance with the relevant spirit of the "Guide".
When introducing the relevant situation of the "Guide", Sun Wenjian said that the main purpose is to "close" the four things.
The first is key personnel clearance, strengthening the protection of employees, and effectively guaranteeing the safety of the front-line workers of cold chain logistics.
The transportation enterprises of imported cold chain food strictly do a good job in the safety protection of port operators, drivers, stevedores, crews, pilots and other cold chain logistics front-line workers, and do well in personnel health registration, daily health monitoring, safety protection equipment, Regular nucleic acid testing and disinfection and other related tasks, professional training for personnel in high-risk positions to properly wear and remove protective clothing, etc., especially when loading and unloading imported cold chain foods from areas where the epidemic occurs, guiding dock handlers and other operators in the process of moving goods Wear a mask throughout the entire process, and at the same time, avoid the goods close to your face, touch your mouth and nose, do not open the box without authorization, do not open the cold chain food packaging at will, prevent contact with frozen products that may be contaminated by the new crown virus, etc., and effectively protect the front line The safety of the staff prevents the risk of infection.
The second is to shut down tools, strictly disinfect transportation tools, and resolutely prevent the virus from spreading through transportation channels.
Before and after cold-chain logistics transportation, thoroughly disinfect the parts of the used transportation tools and containers that may have been in contact, such as steering wheels, door handles, mobile devices that are frequently touched by human hands and other surfaces that are most likely to be contaminated by viruses. disinfect.
At the same time, it is necessary to organize or entrust a qualified disinfection unit to thoroughly disinfect the inner walls of imported cold-chain food vehicles, ships and other transportation tools and containers that have been loaded with imported cold-chain food.
The third is to strengthen the information barrier and implement the information registration system to provide strong support for the prevention and control of cold chain logistics epidemics.
Further supervise and promote import cold chain food transportation enterprises to strictly implement the information registration system, and truthfully register the information of the cargo, vehicles and ships, crew, crew, loading and unloading and receiving personnel, etc., and shall not carry imported cold chain food that cannot provide the source of purchase.
At the same time, it will also urge port enterprises, freight yards and other operating units to truthfully register information about imported cold-chain food transport vehicles entering and leaving the port yards, as well as drivers and other relevant information.
The fourth is to handle well, do a good job of emergency response to emergencies, and resolutely cut off the cold chain logistics virus transmission.
Imported cold chain food transportation companies further improve the emergency response plan for the new crown pneumonia epidemic. Once the imported cold chain food or packaging is detected as positive for the new crown virus, the company will promptly initiate emergency plans and take measures to cut off the transmission route and isolate close contacts. , Make timely and effective treatment; for those who have found cases or suspected abnormal conditions of new coronary pneumonia, enterprises implement prevention and control measures for internal proliferation and external prevention, and cooperate with relevant departments to carry out epidemiological investigations, close contact tracking management, and epidemic Point disinfection and other related work.
“In the next step, the Ministry of Transport will continue to guide and supervise cold chain food logistics enterprises and employees, do their best to prevent and control cold chain logistics epidemics, further strengthen'personal defense', and resolutely prevent the new crown virus from being carried out through cold chain logistics channels. Spread." Sun Wenjian said.