Focus on cold chain food infection risk

BEIJING: China’s customs agency has stepped up efforts to prevent the novel coronavirus from being imported via cold chain food with actions including broader communication with authorities in more than 100 countries, following a recent increase in cases of the virus entering the country on imported cold chain food.

The General Administration of Customs said it had been in touch with authorities in all 109 countries that export cold chain food to China and demanded that they urge food exporters to strictly follow sanitation guidelines and prevent coronavirus contamination of food and packaging bound for China.