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According to the Chinese State Council’s COVID-19 Prevention and Control Plan, imported frozen foods must be tested and found negative for COVID-19, disinfected inside the vehicle, and disinfected on the outside of the food packaging. If the test is positive, the products are destroyed or returned to the sender, according to a report from the Ministry of Agriculture.
The plan requires logistics companies that handle frozen foods to strictly inspect import documentation for imported frozen foods and disinfect vehicles, vessels and other transportation equipment, and cold food warehouses to record and maintain records of incoming frozen foods and they leave them for at least 2 years.
Frozen food imported to Shanghai from this subway. November 16, a list of special requirements has come into effect. All frozen food stored, processed and sold in Shanghai must undergo COVID-19 testing, outer packaging sanitized, and a certificate of disinfection.
Shanghai and Tianjin are China’s largest ports for frozen products, with 60-70 percent entering. all meat imports from that country. The importation of frozen food is not officially prohibited in either the Shanghai or Tianjin ports, but the inspection procedure has been particularly tightened. However, according to unofficial sources, frozen food containers are not accepted in these ports, and the import process is particularly slow in other Chinese ports.
This situation has slowed down the movement of goods in particular: the frozen food container must pass customs controls (disinfection in addition to normal customs control procedures takes at least 7 hours) and then transported to cold rooms where the COVID test is performed -19 (testing can only be performed by a sample of 29 companies) and only after a negative test are products allowed to be put up for sale.
The situation in the airlines is also difficult. European airlines are not prepared for the new requirements as there was no advance notice of the planned changes. Currently, most of them refuse to accept cargo.
The experience of Lithuanian companies exporting food products to China shows that currently all frozen and non-frozen food is strictly inspected, additional documents and detailed product information are requested.
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