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China - Some imported whey powder for use in milk products had a positive COVID-19 coronavirus test in Zaozhuang, Shandong province - January 30, 2021

sharon sanders

Editor-in-Chief & President
Shandong epidemic-related milk jujube products flow out, and samples from many places have tested positive

2021-01-30 17:12 Editor: Wang Xiaolin





Recently, the Zaozhuang City Epidemic Prevention and Control Headquarters of Shandong Province notified Shandong Jiuxu Biotechnology Co., Ltd. that some imported whey powder and milk date products had a positive nucleic acid test. Up to now, many places have reported the influx of milk dates involved in the epidemic.


Zaozhuang, Shandong-An environmental nucleic acid test of imported whey powder by a company was positive



At 21:00 on January 21, 2021, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention of Taierzhuang District, Zaozhuang, Shandong received a push from Xuecheng District . The milk dates processed by the disease-related whey powder in Shizhong District will be distributed by Xuecheng District and come to Taierzhuang to participate in the wedding of relatives and friends and flow into Taierzhuang District. the communications , Taierzhuang District epidemic prevention and control and overall economic performance leading group (headquarters) rapid response, the first time to organize the relevant departments to carry out investigation and tracking, nucleic acid detection and epidemiological investigation of human contact, and immune-related products Sampling and testing of the external environment. After the first test, the people in close contact with the product and the external environment were negative, and the product involved in the epidemic was positive.


In addition, Zaozhuang issued a WeChat public account on January 19 and issued a notice stating that on the evening of January 18, 2021, the non-cold chain group of the Shandong Province Import Container Epidemic Prevention and Control Special Class "Notice on the Immediate Disposal of Imported Whey Powder Involved in the Disease" Then carry out epidemiological investigation and traceability. Upon investigation, the company involved was a food production and processing company in Mengzhuang Town , Shizhong District, and three on-site environmental samples in the company’s warehouse tested positive. At present, the enterprises involved have been controlled on the spot, production and sales have been suspended, production sites have been temporarily closed, all existing products have been sealed, and the enterprise environment has been terminally disinfected. The relevant contacts found in the preliminary investigation were isolated and observed, and the initial nucleic acid test results were all negative


https://www.bjnews.com.cn/detail/161199658015858.html
 
The affected milk dates have flowed into Tianjin, and the raw materials are imported in the same batch as the affected Ukrainian whey powder

2021-01-30 23:49 Reporter: Guo Tie Editor: Zhu Fenglan


The Beijing News (Reporter Guo Tie) According to the news on the evening of January 30th on the official Weibo of the Press Office of the Tianjin Municipal People’s Government, some of Zaozhuang's milk dates related to the epidemic have flowed into Tianjin through online channels. There are currently 8 milk date samples in the city The test result was positive, and the nucleic acid test results of related personnel were all negative. According to incomplete statistics, the milk dates involved in the epidemic have flowed into at least 7 provinces and cities including Shandong, Shanxi, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Guizhou, and Tianjin through online channels.

On January 29, Tianjin received a notification from the Zaozhuang City Epidemic Prevention and Control Leading Group (Headquarters) of Shandong Province that a batch of milk jujube production raw materials imported from Ukraine in whey powder samples tested positive for nucleic acid, and some milk jujubes passed the line The upper channel flows into Tianjin. According to investigations, the milk dates involved in the epidemic were produced in Zaozhuang City, Shandong Province. The imported Ukrainian whey powder used in the production of milk dates was imported in the same batch as the whey powder imported from Ukraine before the epidemic in Tianjin.

As of 21.00 on January 30, Tianjin has collected a total of 209 samples of milk jujubes, inner and outer packaging, etc., except for 8 milk jujube samples with positive nucleic acid test results, the rest of the test results were negative. Thirteen environmental samples were collected, and the nucleic acid test results were all negative. A total of 265 people who ate or exposed milk dates and were in close contact with the epidemic were investigated. The nucleic acid test results were all negative. Among them, 14 people who ate or exposed positive milk dates, and 10 people had taken them because they were last consumed or exposed within 14 days. Centralized isolation measures, 4 people over 14 days, all implemented home medical observation measures; the other 251 people also adopted corresponding health monitoring measures.


According to previous news from the Tianjin Prevention and Control Headquarters, on January 14, after 3 ice cream samples from Tianjin Daqiaodao Food Co., Ltd. were tested positive, Tianjin conducted testing on 740 samples collected from the production workshop in Jinnan District. Among the 3 samples of Ukrainian imported raw material whey powder used for ice cream production, the results of the new coronavirus nucleic acid test were positive, and the results of other samples were negative. On January 21, the Tianjin Binhai New Area CDC conducted a new coronavirus nucleic acid test on a sample of whey powder imported from Ukraine by a food company in Tianjin Binhai New Area. It found that 17 samples tested positive and related products did not enter the Tianjin market. .


https://www.bjnews.com.cn/detail/161202152315021.html
 
.https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7706945/
We inoculated 6 cattle with SARS-CoV-2; of these animals, 2 later tested positive for the virus in PCR of nasal swab samples and show specific seroconversion by RBD-ELISA. Even though the genome loads detected in animal 768 at day 3 were low, there is evidence that this animal was confronted with real viral replication.
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In this context, the wide distribution of BCoV is of special interest, especially because the presence of a preexisting coronavirus did not protect from infection with another betacoronavirus in this study.Double infections of individual animals might lead to recombination events between SARS-CoV-2 and BCoV, a phenomenon already described for other pandemic coronaviruses (12). A resulting chimeric virus, comprising characteristics of both viruses, could threaten human and livestock populations and should therefore be monitored.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/jmv.26621

Cattle are the most domesticated and agricultural animal, and experimental infection in 4–5 months old, male Holstein‐Friesian dairy calves inoculated intranasally with 1 ? 10[SUP]5[/SUP] TCID[SUB]50[/SUB]/ml of SARS‐CoV‐2 virus demonstrated viral RNA in the nasal swabs and evidence of seroreactivity.[SUP]40[/SUP]
 
https://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/news/coronavirus-no-evidence-food-source-or-transmission-route

"Scientists and authorities across the world are monitoring the spread of the virus and there have not been any reports of transmission through food. For this reason, EFSA is not currently involved in the response to the COVID-19 outbreaks. However, we are monitoring the scientific literature for new and relevant information.

Regarding food safety, the World Health Organization (WHO) has issued precautionary recommendations including advice on following good hygiene practices during food handling and preparation, such as washing hands, cooking meat thoroughly and avoiding potential cross-contamination between cooked and uncooked foods. More information can be found on the WHO website."
 
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