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Original title: Many provinces and cities accelerate the construction of cold chain traceability, the cold chain industry ushered in new challenges
Our reporter Xie Lan, reporter-in-training Hu Yanping
Recently, the case of the new coronavirus imported through the cold chain has attracted attention. In order to effectively strengthen the standardization of epidemic prevention and control efforts and effectively prevent the risk of the new corona pneumonia epidemic due to the importation of food from the cold chain, on November 9, the State Council issued a notice on the preventive and comprehensive work plan for disinfection of imported food from the cold chain, notifying inspections in ports, transport and transportation. In the process of storage, wholesale and retail, imported foods from the cold chain must undergo preventive treatment and comprehensive disinfection before they come into contact with domestic staff for the first time, in order to trace all the closed cycle control process and minimize the risk of importing the new corona virus through imported food from the cold chain.
Qin Yuming, general secretary of the Cold Chain Committee of the China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing, said in an interview with a Securities Daily reporter: “From the perspective of customs or other relevant departments, strict inspections have been implemented. , Disinfection and control methods. The problem products on display today are still quite small in terms of the total share of goods. “
Many provinces and cities accelerate the construction of cold chain traceability
“Seafood”, “low temperature” and “cold chain” have become the keywords of the current national epidemic. In the early morning of November 8, Tianjin Prevention and Control Headquarters reported that after investigation, an environmental sample from Hailian cold storage in China’s Tianjin Ecological City and Singapore in Binhai New Area gave positive for the new coronavirus, and a longshoreman worker tested positive for nucleic acid and was sent to a designated hospital for treatment. Since June of this year, many provinces across the country have successively tested positive for the new coronavirus in frozen cold chain products.
Zhu Danpeng, principal investigator at the China Trademark Research Institute, told the Securities Daily reporter: “The new corona virus is very portable. When consumers come into contact with cold chain products that carry the new virus from the crown, the possibility of infection is very high. At the same time, food is also present in the outer packaging. A hidden safety hazard. “
Qin Yuming told the “Securities Daily” reporter that in terms of prevention and risk control of cold chain products, it has now entered the new normal stage of epidemic prevention. On the one hand, foreign epidemics continue to spread, one after another, many countries ushered in the second wave of epidemic peaks in autumn and winter; On the other hand, China needs a large amount of imported products to make up for the lack of domestic supply, so it should not reject all imported products. Outside, this is consensus and common sense. According to the new standard, it is necessary to improve the risk prevention and control mechanism. As a relevant company, the following two aspects are gradually being strengthened: one is to accelerate the establishment and improvement of the company’s own quarantine mechanism; the second is to strictly improve the measures and means of prevention and control.
At present, many places are stepping up the construction of cold chain traceability. According to incomplete statistics from journalists, so far, more than ten provinces and cities, including Beijing, Shanghai, Zhejiang, Fujian and Guangdong, have implemented food traceability in the cold chain. Food traceability platforms have been officially launched in some provinces. For example, as of November 9, 2020, Gansu Province has fully implemented the “Gansu Province Food Safety Information Traceability Platform”. As of November 1, the “Beijing Cold Chain” food traceability platform was officially launched. On November 6, Sichuan Province Cold Chain Food Traceability Platform “Sichuan Cold Chain” organized and built by Sichuan Provincial Market Supervision Administration was officially launched. This platform accounted for time and space for objects, people and places in the possible links of the food of the cold chain contaminated by the new coronavirus. With lock-in traceability, regulatory authorities can accurately find out the flow of problem batches of products and traders across the province through the “Sichuan Cold Chain” every second.
The cold chain industry faces new challenges
It is understood that most viruses are resistant to cold and heat. Studies have shown that survival time can be up to a week below 20 degrees Celsius and can last for several months below zero degrees Celsius. At the same time, the new coronavirus is “sticky” and is easier to adhere to smooth surfaces. Once frozen foods become contaminated, they can become a means of transmitting the virus. All of these pose higher requirements for chain safety than the cold chain industry.
Shen Meng, CEO of Chanson Capital, said in an interview with a Securities Daily reporter: “The new corona virus is a new virus that humans have not fully understood and its characteristics have not been fully understood. Therefore, although there have been many cold chains and there is still no causal scientific verification of the correlation of the new corona virus, so at present it can only be said that the possibility that the new corona virus appear and survive in the cold chain transportation process is obvious. This is a new topic for the cold chain industry. . “
In Shen Meng’s view, how to carry out a more perfect virus elimination work without affecting the safety of cold chain elements, and in addition to business, scientific research institutions should be more involved in the research of this topic. The cold chain is essential as an important route for the flow of food and medicine. For the benefit of the entire industry, we must work together to find a better scientific solution.
“Under the epidemic, new development requirements have also been raised for the logistics link of the cold chain. At present, it is necessary to establish an emergency link mechanism. During the epidemic or other emergencies, the white list of transportation to facilitate transportation; due to local traffic policies and There are differences in policies at the national level and it is recommended to build a more comprehensive public information platform, promote intensive management, promote unified operations carefully and reduce contacts staff on various links, “Qin Yuming said.
Qin Yuming further told reporters that the epidemic has exposed the construction problems of China’s food supply chain system and the shortcomings of the companies themselves. Companies should seize this opportunity to improve and reflect to offer customers more effective solutions. The epidemic is in danger and the cold chain industry should be promoted by science and technology in the later stage, traceability and visualization of the whole process, improve the level of scheduling and resource utilization and establish a response mechanism more efficient emergency.
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