A worker disinfects packaged food meant for the third China International Import Expo in Shanghai on October 29. China has only intensified its imported food screening since then. Ardern said she was confident meat products were not exported from her country with the coronavirus but no clarification had come from China. China has pointed to its isolation of live coronavirus from samples on imported frozen cod, a world-first, as proof, though with the evidence unpublished, that the coronavirus can be transmitted from food to people. Speaking at a food safety conference this month, Gudrun Gallhoff, minister counsellor for health and food safety at the European Union delegation to China, said exporters needed more information on China’s test methods and results.

Source: The Standard November 17, 2020 22:52 UTC