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Original Caption: Positive Nucleic Acid Test Incidents Occur Frequently, National Cold Chain Imported Food Supply Decreases
As winter enters, incidents of positive tests for the nucleic acid of the novel coronavirus continue to appear everywhere on the outer packaging of imported cold chain foods. In this context, some companies are more cautious with the storage, purchase and sale of imported meat, and there is a phenomenon of substitution of fresh products by countries, imported cold chain foods are frustrated in the Chinese market.
In 2020, the foreign epidemic situation remains dire, and many imported foods from the cold chain have positive nucleic acid tests. In December 2020 alone, there will be Brazilian pork, Argentine beef, Thai horsetail, and Indonesian flying fish from Zhejiang, Shanxi, Liaoning and Fujian. Eggs and other samples from outer packaging have been recruited.
In this context, the supply of imported fresh produce in China has changed. Chen Mei, general manager of Wuhan Beiguanghui Cold Chain Warehousing Co., Ltd., told the Beijing News that his company’s cold chain storage mainly serves the Central China area, covering an area of more than 10,000 square meters, with daily entries and exits of 10,000-30,000. Box around. Including seafood, quick frozen, meats, and other foods. After the relevant regulations of the national special database were issued, the company distinguished domestic and imported fresh food storage. Among them, the area occupied by imported products is about 800 square meters to 1000 square meters. Affected by the epidemic, at the beginning of November 2020, the company decided to close the import warehouse work and replace the entire warehouse in the corresponding area with domestic product.
“For imported products, at the beginning, each batch was inspected and then each box was inspected once. However, when the stevedores were carrying the boxes, it was not known which side they were carrying. So even if a sample is taken of each box, making sure the boxes are complete in all respects, there are still risks. ”Chen Mei said the company suspends import storage mainly due to its large radiation market. Once a problem occurs, it may involve many links. Therefore, actively choose to close the risk window. Contact intermediate customers and try to get the other party to replace imported fresh produce with domestic fresh produce. Although the cost to be borne by customers has increased, all they can understand it from the perspective of epidemic prevention.
In addition to cold storage, some downstream sales terminals have also reduced sales of imported frozen products. As early as August 17, 2020, when Hema Xiansheng improved its prevention and control measures, said that considering the recent detection of new corona-positive imported frozen food packaging in some domestic cities, to further ensure safe consumption, Hema Xiansheng It will Increase the supply of domestically produced seafood, meat and poultry and other important consumer goods in stores throughout the country to replace frozen products imported from Brazil, Ecuador and other relevant South American countries that have had positive records of detection of external packaging in the country.
From a macro perspective, the volume of imported meat has also decreased compared to previous months. According to customs data, in October and November 2020, the volume of imported pork from China will remain basically at 330,000 tons, and the volume of imported beef will remain basically at 170,000 tons, but this is different from 560,000. tonnes of imported pork and 210,000 tonnes in July 2020. Compared to the volume of imported beef per ton, there has been a downward trend in the last three to four months. Zhu Zengyong, a research associate at the Institute of Livestock and Veterinary Medicine of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences in Beijing, told the Beijing News that the recent decline in pork imports from the previous months is also related to the epidemic to some extent. .
On the one hand, due to the African swine fever epidemic of wild boar in Germany, Chinese customs will suspend the importation of pork from Germany as of September 13, 2020. Germany is the main importer of pork from China and its import volume may be among the top three. On the other hand, as of June 2020, some foreign pork producers have voluntarily suspended exports to China due to the outbreak of the new corona epidemic in their factories. Under normal circumstances, the export of pork to China takes more than two months from the signing of the contract to the arrival at the port.The impact of the suspension of the above matters has just been reflected from around October 2020, and the Import volume has decreased slightly.
Wang Siyang, reporter for Beijing News
