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Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 on Cold-Chain Food: Precautions Can Effectively Reduce the Risk.
- Source :
- Food & Environmental Virology; Sep2022, Vol. 14 Issue 3, p295-303, 9p
- Publication Year :
- 2022
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Abstract
- The COVID-19 pandemic has generated a new era in the world, also in the food safety. Up to now, there is no evidence to suggest that people can infect COVID-19 via food contaminated by SARS-CoV-2. Here, we analyzed the results of regular SARS-CoV-2 nucleic acid testing of considerable cold-chain food practitioners, cold-chain food surfaces, and their internal or external packaging as well as their associated environments, aiming to explore the risk of cold-chain food being contaminated by SARS-CoV-2 and the probability of people infecting COVID-19 through contaminated cold-chain food in the context of COVID-19 epidemic. This study found that only two batches of cold-chain food were contaminated by SARS-CoV-2, none of the cold-chain food handler were infected due to effective regulatory measures for cold-chain food. Therefore, effective supervision and preventive methods could effectively reduce the transmission risk of SARS-CoV-2 on cold-chain food. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 18670334
- Volume :
- 14
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Food & Environmental Virology
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 158999765
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s12560-022-09521-4