Corona ice cream next to salmon? 2000 boxes in China have already been released

China, which was caught in an emergency due to the spread of Corona 19, was flipped over by ice cream this time. Coronavirus was discovered in ice cream packaging produced by a food company in Tianjin. As it turned out that more than 2,000 boxes of the product had already been released on the market, Tianjin City’s party secretary began responding on-site.

Tianjin City’s quarantine command ministry said on the 15th that three of them tested positive for a nucleic acid test on an ice cream sample commissioned by the Daqiaodao food company. It is an ice cream packaged in a white plastic container with three flavors: chocolate, strawberry, and taro. After the first test on the 13th was positive, the Tianjin quarantine authorities immediately shut down the plant and initiated an investigation.

As a result, 1588 boxes of chocolate flavored ice cream (6 per box), 1627 boxes of strawberry flavor, and 1621 boxes of taro flavor were all produced during the period, and 2251 boxes (13,506) were released on the market. Turned out to be.

Immediately, the factory was shut down, and as a result of testing 1662 people, the nucleic acid test has shown that 700 people have been negative. At the same time, it launched an investigation into the import process of New Zealand milk powder and Ukrainian whey powder, which are ingredients for ice cream.

Tianjin’s quarantine authorities are working specifically on recovering ice cream sold on the market. The related wholesalers and retailers are closed and ice cream that has not yet been sold is being collected. The authorities disclosed the relevant facts through’emergency notice’ and requested that citizens who bought the product report it.

In June of last year, it was revealed that the second corona spread to Beijing, where there were almost two months of confirmed cases, was due to salmon entering the Sinpadi market. The salmon was imported and packaged in a country infected with Corona 19, and was delivered to the market in a freezer.The coronavirus was found in the freezer, and the quarantine authorities concluded that the cause was imported frozen food.

Since then, frozen food has begun to attract attention as a key source of the spread of Corona 19 in China. In China, where the movement of personnel is completely blocked, if the corona spreads due to an unclear cause, it is to investigate frozen food first.

Finally, on October 17 last year, the China Centers for Disease Prevention and Control (CCDC) announced that a live Corona 19 virus was detected in the packaging of imported frozen food. In the process of investigating the outbreak of outbreaks in Qingdao, the first live virus was identified in a packaged sample of imported frozen cod. CDCC pointed out, “It means that the virus can survive for a relatively long time even under the special conditions of transporting frozen products. It means that there is a possibility that the virus can cross distant borders through frozen goods.”

Tianjin City’s party secretary Li Hong-jong visited the factory right after 7 p.m. the day before the virus was confirmed in ice cream, and ordered to prevent the spread of the virus. This is because of concerns that ice cream could become another’super propagator’. Tianjin has no confirmed cases on the mainland except for cases of foreign inflow (16 people).

Meanwhile, as of 0 o’clock on the 15th, 144 confirmed cases in China were added, totaling 1,727. Additional confirmed cases are intensively occurring in Hebei (90) and Heilongjiang (43).

Beijing = correspondent Park Seong-hun [email protected]