There is no evidence that the new coronavirus is infected through the digestive tract through food

On June 19th, the
Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism was restarted a month later to respond to social concerns with the recently released Guidelines for the Normalization and Prevention and Control of New Coronary Pneumonia Outbreaks in Key Units and Key Places in Low-Risk Areas.recently, a cluster outbreak in Beijing's Xinfa district market has raised high concern about whether food, especially seafood, is infected with the virus. "In fact, there has been no evidence of digestive tract infections through food, including seafood." Research shows that the new coronavirus is mainly transmitted through close respiratory droplets and contact, said Feng Erchao, a researcher at the China Center for Disease Control and Prevention. In a relatively closed environment, prolonged exposure to high concentrations of aerosols may also occur at risk of aerosol transmission, and there is no evidence of other routes of transmission.
Nevertheless, in order to reduce the possible risks, Feng recommended that the public in the purchase of food, as far as possible not to contact raw fish, raw meat, in the daily processing, cooking, food should pay attention to food hygiene and food safety, including food treatment before and after thorough hand washing, raw cooked board separate, as well as food and drinking water to be thoroughly heated, cooked, cooked through, fruit needs to be peeled. Common kitchenware and cutlery can be disinfected by cooking for 15 minutes to reduce the risk of infection.
in Wuhan, the new coronavirus was first found in the market, and the Outbreak in Beijing also started in the market. In this regard, Feng said that most of the fresh market has a complex personnel structure, extensive logistics coverage, large passenger flow, humid environment and so on, once the environment is polluted or outbreak, may be contaminated products tracking, traceability and exposure management caused great difficulties and challenges.
Feng, citing beijing's Xinfadi market as an example, is Asia's largest agricultural and by-product trading market, which supplies more than 80% of Beijing's agricultural products and radiates to neighboring provinces such as Hebei province. Since the first case was detected on June 11, Beijing has rapidly launched a secondary response, through strengthening community management, strengthening the control of people leaving Beijing, key industries, focus areas, key regions, key areas of personnel, in a timely manner to carry out nucleic acid testing, as far as possible to find infected people. "The public should take personal precautions and strive to control the outbreak at an early stage, " he stressed. Thein Beijing has raised particular concerns about the safety of imported food. In this regard, the General Administration of Customs, Deputy Director of the Department of Health and Quarantine Song Yueqian pointed out that the World Health Organization believes that, based on the past experience in the investigation of coronavirus-induced diseases, there have been no cases of transmission to humans through food consumption.
he said that both the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the World Organization for Animal Health consider the risk of the spread of the new coronavirus in the food trade to be extremely low and do not recommend that countries restrict international trade, including food, as a result of the outbreak of new crown pneumonia.
, as a member of the above-mentioned international organizations, has adopted the relevant work proposals in a scientific attitude. Song Yueqian said, but as a precaution, since February this year, the General Administration of Customs has deployed some customs without affecting normal import trade, some of the in-country goods, goods and related environment to carry out sampling tests of neovirus nucleic acid, the results are negative.
Song Yueqian introduced, especially after the outbreak in Beijing, the customs department has deployed the national customs from the outbreak of high-risk countries or regions of fresh cold chain products, such as aquatic products, meat, frozen vegetables, aquatic animals, short-term or low-temperature transport industry products and other imported goods to carry out new coronavirus risk monitoring. As of June 18, the national customs tested a total of 15,638 samples, of which 3508 samples of goods, 10608 samples of internal and external packaging, environmental samples 1522, the results are negative.
Song Yueqian also said that the customs increased communication with countries, respectively, sent letters to 42 key countries, asking their government departments and food production enterprises, in strict accordance with the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization and the World Health Organization jointly issued food safety production guidelines, the establishment of an effective food safety management system, do a good job of preventive measures, strictly prevent export food contaminated by the new crown virus, to ensure food trade security.