China has stepped up controls on frozen food imports amid the pandemic.
Beijing:
Health authorities in eastern China’s Qingdao city found coronavirus contamination in some packages stored by a seafood importer after two of its handlers tested positive for the virus but showed no symptoms.
China has tightened controls on frozen food imports and banned those at some overseas meat processing plants amid the global pandemic.
Thursday’s results came during a routine test of company personnel, although none of the 147 close contacts of the two affected men tested positive, the Qingdao Municipal Health Commission said in a statement.
The importer ‘s products and facilities generated 51 positive test results, but no contaminated product reached the market, the commission said, without identifying the items or their origins.
Chinese customs have threatened a one-week suspension of imports from companies whose frozen food products test positive for the virus, and third-time offenders are subject to four weeks.
Large traces of the virus were found in the meat and seafood sections of a market in the capital Beijing, which was the site of an outbreak in June.
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