Sun Dawen Academician: Strengthen cold chain food supervision and cut off the spread of the new crown

, Beijing, August 3 (Reporter Ma Xiuxiu) "From a scientific point of view, cold chain for food preservation, but also for the virus 'fresh'." Once food in the circulation of the new coronavirus, the traditional cold chain low temperature high humidity environment is more conducive to the long-term virus to maintain the vitality of infection. "Recently, the Royal Irish
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Sun Dawen told reporters, continue to do a good job in epidemic prevention and control work, to strictly ensure the safe supply of cold chain food, scientific and effective cut off all possible ways of the spread of food-borne new coronavirus.
morning of August 3, Dalian held a press conference on epidemic prevention and control. It was reported that between 0:00 on July 22nd and 24:00 on August 2nd, a total of 87 local cases had been confirmed in Dalian. The outbreak in Dalian is a cluster outbreak related to the processing of cold-chain seafood products, the press conference said.
similar, Beijing had a local cluster of cases in June, and traceable sources have also been linked to local imports of cold-chain foods.
Sun Dawen pointed out that from the scientific rigor, it is still not possible to confirm that seafood, aquatic products can be infected with the new coronavirus, but the outbreak case shows that the relevant market for cold chain fresh food is indeed positive for the new coronavirus nucleic acid. Therefore, it is particularly important to strengthen the supervision of all aspects of imported cold chain food and circulation.
In view of this, Sun Dawen suggested that the relevant departments need to increase sampling efforts on imported food, and the new coronavirus nucleic acid testing as the current special period of imported food mandatory items, including the food itself and food packaging testing;
" related departments should establish and improve the domestic food traceability system, once the outbreak of food-source virus infection, can use the traceability system 'Shunto touch melon', quickly lock the source of the outbreak, in order to control the outbreak of valuable time. Sun Dawen also believes that to strengthen the personal protection and health management of food practitioners, for cold chain food circulation links involved in transport tools, equipment facilities and places, but also to carry out regular professional killing, blocking the transmission of the virus, in advance to develop food safety emergency disposal plans, focusing on the outbreak of market management, personnel isolation, killing cleaning, waste disposal and other work.
Sun Dawen said, for the public, need to develop good food safety practices, in the food raw materials processing, bearing in mind the "raw separation" principle, to avoid the secondary contamination of cooked food, special period, especially to avoid raw food eating habits.