This afternoon, the Joint prevention and control mechanism of The State Council held a press conference to introduce information on preventing import risks of the epidemic and strengthening supervision over imported cold chain food。
会上，General Administration of Customs import and export food Safety Bureau Director Bike new introduction，To prevent the risk of the new coronavirus pneumonia epidemic through the import of cold chain food，Customs across the country have carried out novel coronavirus surveillance on imported cold chain food，By 24 o 'clock yesterday，A total of 227,934 customs samples were collected for monitoring，Among them, 43,964 product samples, 147,568 internal and external packaging samples, 36,402 environmental samples。Among the above samples, on July 3, Dalian Customs tested positive for COVID-19 nucleic acid from a sample on the inner wall of a container containing frozen South American white shrimp produced by an Ecuadorian company, and from three outer packaging samples of frozen South American white shrimp produced by an Ecuadorian company。On the same day, Xiamen Customs tested positive for COVID-19 nucleic acid in two outer packing samples of frozen South American white shrimp produced by an Ecuadorian company。Frozen South American white shrimp body and inner packaging samples of the above enterprises，All nucleic acid tests for COVID-19 were negative，The other 227,928 samples all tested negative，On the samples that test positive，Nucleic acid sequence analysis and expert judgment，Detection result prompt，The container environment and outer packaging of the products of three Ecuadorian enterprises are at risk of being contaminated by the novel coronavirus。
Experts believe that the detection results do not represent infectivity, but reflect the implementation of the food safety management system of relevant enterprises is not in place。In order to protect the health of consumers, the General Administration of Customs has decided to suspend the registration of the above three enterprises in China from today, suspend the import of the products of the above three enterprises, and take measures to return and destroy the suspended goods。
Source: China Customs Network