COVID-19 risk to consumers from cold chain products 'very low', says Chinese official

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The risk to consumers of catching the coronavirus from cold chain food products was 'very low,' a senior Chinese official said on Wednesday, after ...

FILE PHOTO: A customer shops for seafood at a supermarket in Shanghai, China, Nov 17, 2020. BEIJING: The risk to consumers of catching the coronavirus from cold chain food products was"very low," a senior Chinese official said on Wednesday , after China increased inspections of imported frozen foods to the irritation of its trade partners.

Screening of cold chain products for the virus showed the detection ratio was 0.48/10,000, officials said.But Li told a news briefing there was still a risk of infection and those most at risk included"handlers, who repeatedly came into contact with the outer packaging of imported cold-chain food in a particular environment".

 

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