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The bread and bakery products manufactured and sold by economic agents in Romania are not a vector for the transmission of coronavirus, says the president of Romanian employers in milling, bakery and flour products – ROMPAN, Aurel Popescu.
“We must not alarm the population and transmit false information about the transmission of the virus through food, especially through bread, a product present on the table of any Romanian. All bakery products are manufactured in compliance with all food safety regulations, and when selling packaged or unwrapped bakery products, additional measures are applied at the points of sale, in the sense that the sale is made in compliance with the hygiene standards imposed, ”said Aurel Popescu.
President ROMPAN’s statement comes after the appearance in public space on Friday of a study according to which the Sars-Cov-2 virus could be transmitted through the consumption of unpackaged bread.
The World Health Organization (WHO) and the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) have said that so far there is no evidence that the Sars-Cov 2 virus is transmitted through the consumption of food or bread. In this context, ROMPAN asks those at the University of Bucharest to withdraw what they have currently reported and to specify that there are some partial results, which are not validated by the WHO or EFSA.
Wave of appeals
“Although the results of the study were partial and invalid, they were made public without any responsibility for the population and for the entire bakery industry. Studies of this type must be carried out by specialists in the field, the results must be assumed, endorsed and validated by the competent authorities. The mere fact that the Sars-Cov-2 virus can go viral on a plastic surface is not enough for it to be transmitted, it must be viable and have a certain means of multiplication. Coronaviruses do not multiply in food, they need an animal or human host to multiply, ”Popescu stressed.
Likewise, the president of ROMPAN considers that the appearance of such “totally false” information raises suspicions that there are other interests related to the increase in sales of packaged bread and especially imported bakery products.
The director general of the National Authority for Consumer Protection (ANPC), Paul Anghel, also reacted on Saturday, stating that there is no evidence that the Sars-Cov-2 virus is transmitted through food consumption, and the results Los Preliminary results of the study presented by the University of Bucharest contradict the statements of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA).
Likewise, the National Veterinary Health and Food Safety Authority (ANSVSA) said in a statement on Saturday that there is no information available on the presence and survival of the Sars-Cov 2 virus in food, so it is possible to infect humans, COVID . -19 being a respiratory disease.
