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The Ministry of Transport has released a guideline to prevent the
transmission of COVID-19 through imported cold-chain foods in road and
water transportation. It urged all companies, docks, and freight terminals involved in
cold-chain logistics to protect their frontline employees, stressing
protective equipment distribution, temperature checks, and regular
nucleic acid testing. Stricter disinfection measures should apply to transportation, with
transportation equipment for imported cold-chain foods, including
vehicles, vessels, and containers to be disinfected regularly, according
to the guideline. The guideline also called for an information registration system to
track and trace people, cargos, and vehicles more effectively. More efforts should go into emergency handling, the guideline said,
adding that immediate actions must follow to cut off the routes of
transmission if any imported food or packaging test positive for
coronavirus. Risks of COVID-19 contamination through imported cold-chain foods are
mounting in China. On Sunday, a packaging sample of imported frozen
aquatic products and one from imported frozen pork were reported to be
tested positive for COVID-19 in east China's Shandong Province and
northwest China's Shaanxi Province, respectively. To minimize importation risks, related government departments of the
country have rolled out measures to strengthen epidemic prevention and
control. The State Council joint prevention and control mechanism against
COVID-19 has unveiled a plan to realize full-chain, closed-loop,
traceable management of imported cold-chain foods. They vowed to conduct
complete disinfection of those products, novel coronavirus tests at the
ports, and ensure all imported cold-chain foods entering the market are
traceable. Also, Chinese customs have suspended the import of products of 99
cold-chain food manufacturers from 20 countries that reported cluster
COVID-19 infections among employees, according to the General
Administration of Customs. Enditem
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