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China - Beijing's largest market ends sales and storage of all frozen products after cleaning areas and destroying all frozen products - November 22,

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I think all these "frozen" articles may be outbreaks blamed on imports.


Xinfadi Market (Chinese: 北京新发地农产品批发市场, Beijing Xinfadi Agricultural Products Wholesale Market) is a covered wholesale food market in the southern Beijing district of Fengtai. As of 2020, the market provides more than 90% of Beijing's fruits and vegetables according to state media.[SUP][1][/SUP] Seafood[SUP][1][/SUP] and meat[SUP][2][/SUP][SUP][3][/SUP] are also sold at the market. Vendors distribute produce from Xinfadi to many smaller markets in Beijing.[SUP][4][/SUP] It is nicknamed the "vegetable basket" and "fruit bowl" of the city.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinfadi_Market




Beijing Xinfadi suspends sales and storage of frozen products, and all cold storages are cleared and destroyed

2020-11-25 18:57 Reporter: Chen Lin Editor: Ma Jinqian



Beijing News Express (Reporter Chen Lin) On November 25, the reporter learned from Beijing Xinfadi that Xinfadi has cleaned up aquatic products, chilled fresh, frozen goods, frozen meat, and seafood in the market. Hundreds of cold storages were killed and cut off. The relevant person in charge of the Xinfadi market introduced that the sales and storage of all aquatic products, chilled fresh and frozen products will be temporarily suspended, and will be notified when they will resume.


It is reported that on November 22, Xinfadi Market urgently held a special meeting on cold storage management and control. The regional leaders and department managers involved in cold storage and cold chain participated in the meeting. , Seafood, etc. are all cleaned up, and the cleaned cold storage is promptly cleaned and cut off to ensure safety. Market management personnel regularly inspect the cold storage in the area at regular points every day. In addition, the storage and cold storage of vegetables and fruits must be registered and inspected by the staff every day.


In the next two days, hundreds of cold storages in the market have been cleared, and the above-mentioned frozen products are no longer sold in the market. The reporter learned that part of the vacated cold storage has been adjusted to room temperature storage, increasing the reserve of winter vegetables.


https://www.bjnews.com.cn/detail/160629777115905.html
 
Other frozen articles:


China - Strain of COVID-19 coronavirus in Tianjin is " highly similar to the strains circulating in North America from March to June, and belonged to the L-genotype European family branch II" - November 10, 2020 - Spreading.....

China - Jinan, Shandong officials found that imported frozen food and packaging specimens tested positive for new COVID-19 coronavirus nucleic acid - November 14, 2020

China - Customs agency temporarily bans imports from a beef company in Argentina due to frozen COVID-19 coronavirus - November 14, 2020

China - 4 frozen packages test positive for COVID-19 coronavirus in Quanzhou, Fujian province - November 13, 2020

China - National Health Commission: Preventive and comprehensive disinfection work plan for imported cold chain food - November 9, 2020

China - New COVID-19 coronavirus case in airport worker in Shanghai - November 9, 2020

China - New COVID-19 coronavirus case - frozen food worker, Tianjin - November 7, 2020 - "War Time state"

China - Outer packaging of imported food tested positive for COVID-19 in Shanxi province - November 6, 2020

China - COVID-19 coronavirus found on packaging of imported frozen pork from Brazil in Anqiu City, Shandong province - October 30, 2020

China - COVID-19 coronavirus detected in frozen pomfret packaging from Ecuador - October 30, 2020

China - Screening for COVID-19 coronavirus: Shenzhen takes the lead in setting up a centralized supervision warehouse for imported frozen products in the country - October 24, 2020

China - Beijing CDC: "You can use disposable plastic bags to cover your hands to select frozen chilled food, avoid direct contact with your hands, and wear a mask correctly." - October 21, 2020

China - Qingdao official: COVID-19 coronavirus human-to-human transmission chain found and virus lengthy survival under freezing conditions - October 20, 2020

China - Frozen import packaging with live SARSCoV2 COVID-19 blamed for Qingdao COVID-19 outbreak says CDC - October 17, 2020

China - Customs bans some beef exports for a week after a sample of frozen packaging tested positive for COVID-19 coronavirus - October 1, 2020

China - Beijing requiring companies to avoid importing frozen food from "key epidemic areas" - September 28, 2020

China - More imported frozen seafood samples test positive for COVID-19 coronavirus - 2 human cases confirmed & asymptomatic - 4,341 contacts being investigated - Qingdao, Shandong province - September 24, 2020

China - Another frozen seafood package tests positive for COVID-19 coronavirus: this time in Fuyu City, Songyuan City, Jilin Province - September 20, 2020

China - Outer packaging of imported seafood tested positive for COVID-19, suspected persons under observation in Changchun, Jilin province - September 20, 2020

China - Persons who ate at a restaurant where COVID-19 was found on frozen shrimp packaging quarantined at home for "isolation control" - Golmud, Qinghai province - August 22, 2020

China - Guangzhou city to halt frozen seafood, meat imports on virus worry - August 17, 2020

China - Beijing coronavirus outbreak, frozen food blamed - June 12, 2020+ - cases have spread to 4 provinces
 
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How can they say the risk is low when they have blamed many cases of COVID-19 coronavirus cases on frozen imports? What is going on here? China needs the food. I don't see them cancelling frozen food over trade fights. IMHO.


BEIJING: The risk to consumers of catching the coronavirus from cold chain food products was "very low," a senior Chinese official said on Wednesday (Nov 25), after China increased inspections of imported frozen foods to the irritation of its trade partners.

The World Health Organization has also said the risk of catching COVID-19 from frozen food is low.

China's screening of cold chain products, which include frozen and other perishable items that must be kept cold, has slowed the trade.

more..

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news...medium=twitter


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hat tip Michael Coston

Again, I think these "frozen" problems are related to current outbreaks and not related to any trade fights. Below a Chinese official admits they are acting in the best interest of public health.



snip from an AP "explainer" (Main stream media wants to explain everything to us b/c we are too stupid to figure it out ourselves.)


Trading partners, including the U.S., New Zealand, Canada and the EU, say they’re unclear on China’s methodology and have seen no solid evidence that their products carried the virus. The U.S. has questioned whether China’s crackdown is scientifically based and suggested the bans may amount to an unfair trade barrier.

Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian called the U.S. accusations “totally groundless and unreasonable.” China’s measures are “necessary following the spirit of putting people’s lives first and protecting people’s health,” he said last week.

In a statement to The Associated Press, the World Health Organization said cases of live viruses being found on packaging appear to be “rare and isolated.” While the virus can “survive a long time under cold storage conditions,” there is no evidence of people contracting COVID-19 from consuming food, it said.

EXPLAINER: China's claims of coronavirus on frozen foods (apnews.com)
 
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