A spokesperson for the China Meat Association has called on exporters in nations with high levels of COVID-19 in plants and communities to decontaminate packaging material to “ensure the safety of imported cold-chain food and boost consumer confidence in imported refrigerated products”.
Despite the claim by China that the virus can be detected on packaging and meat, presumably applying PCR, there is no evidence that frozen meat shipped from the U.S, the E.U., or Brazil could be infectious. This opinion is supported by the World Health Organization that assigned a low risk of transmission on frozen food.
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