COVID-19 was detected from frozen shrimp in Pingxiang, Jiangxi. Is the food in the bag still edible?

According to the official WeChat message of the Propaganda Department of Pingxiang Municipal Committee of Jiangxi Province, 14, Pingxiang City issued a circular on the epidemic prevention and control of consumers' recent purchase of Ecuadorian frozen white shrimp products, saying that in the afternoon of July 13, Pingxiang City received a work reminder from Jiangxi Provincial Epidemic Prevention and Control Headquarters, and Hunan Province responded to the epidemic prevention and control team of COVID-19 Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism, and some consumers in Pingxiang City passed the? Prosperity is first choice? The group buying platform purchased frozen South American white shrimp products from Ecuador, and the inner wall and outer packaging of the same batch of related products were tested positive for COVID-19 nucleic acid.

After receiving the prompt, the municipal party Committee and municipal government attached great importance to this. Emergency headquarters, the city's epidemic prevention and control, acted quickly, and conducted a comprehensive investigation on the distribution points, stores, consumers and related contact personnel at the first time, sealed the articles, isolated the contact personnel at home, and strictly tested the environment, articles and contact personnel. Various prevention and control work related to this is being carried out in a standardized and orderly manner as required.

Bi Kexin said that for positive samples, nucleic acid sequence analysis and expert judgment showed that the container environment and cargo packaging of products from three Ecuadorian enterprises were at risk of being contaminated by COVID-19. Therefore, experts believe that the test results do not represent infectivity, but reflect that the food safety management system of relevant enterprises is not in place. At the same time, China News Service reported that as of the morning of 1 1, the Zhejiang market supervision system, together with the customs department, had taken measures to seal up and recall 778 12.08 kg of frozen South American white shrimp imported from Ecuador by Zhejiang importers and distributors.

The Beijing Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention has previously given suggestions that attention should be paid to preventing contact and transmission during the epidemic:

1. When going shopping, be sure to do personal protection, wear a mask, bring sterile paper towels and clean shopping bags;

2. Before the trolleys and shopping baskets in the supermarket are used, the handles and handrails can be disinfected with disinfectant paper towels or disinfectant.

3. When shopping, keep a social distance of at least 1 m with others.

4. When buying fresh food, you should wear disposable gloves or use disposable shopping bags on your hands to choose, and don't touch the food directly with your hands;

5. Raw and cold foods such as meat and seafood should be packaged separately from other foods such as fruits, vegetables and cooked food.

6. Pay attention to the date of production, shelf life and storage conditions on the food label.

7. After purchase, it should be cleaned by hand.

8. Avoid buying food and raw materials from unknown sources.