Posted on 08/13/2020 12:29:52 PM PDT by Red Badger
(Gray News) - Frozen chicken wings imported from Brazil to China tested positive for COVID-19, officials from the city of Shenzhen said.
CNN reported the virus was detected on a sample during food screenings.
Health officials tested people who came in contact with the product, and all results were negative. Officials did not say the brand of the chicken product.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on its website there is no evidence to suggest handling or eating food is associated with widespread transmission of the virus.
“Coronaviruses, like the one that causes COVID-19, are thought to spread mostly person-to-person through respiratory droplets when someone coughs, sneezes, or talks,” the CDC stated in a July 25 report. “It is possible that a person can get COVID-19 by touching a surface or object, including food or food packaging, that has the virus on it and then touching their own mouth, nose, or possibly their eyes.
"However, this is not thought to be the main way the virus spreads."
The World Health Organization also stated it’s “highly unlikely” people can get the virus from food or food packaging, CNN said.
The Chinese government has increased its screening of imported food products, in response to reports of an outbreak originating in June at a Beijing market.
There have been multiple reports of the virus found on imported food packaging in the country, including shrimp from Ecuador on Wednesday, state news CCTV said.
Brazil has more than 3.1 million confirmed cases of people contracting the virus, second to only the U.S., per Johns Hopkins University.
They still have Kenny Rogers Roasters in China.
Just sayin’.
I have to wonder, has any other country found
products to be contaminated?
I don’t trust the CCCP in all this.
Could be part of a disinformation scheme.
there’s that, too.
but still, yuk.
Sars cov had been shown to survive for 2 years at -20c extensive research was done on it after 2003. Sars cov 2 is nearly identical to its version 1 from 2003 in lipid envelopes and rna. If anything sars ver 2 was genetically modified to be more resilient not less.
There is already research that shows ver 2 survives quite well under 4c which is refrigeration temp for 72 hours to 28 DAYS
https://www.who.int/csr/sars/survival_2003_05_04/en/
The virus doesn’t have a long life so it is the people who last touched it...or so it would seem.
The chicken wings must have come from “Rhode Island REDS”. After all, they were for the Red Chinese so they couldn’t have been from the Delaware Blue Hens.
Marinade!
George looks like KoKo the monkey!
George is giving it to T-Bone!
KoKo the Monkey! :)
Now, Gammy says...
Kenny? Kenny? Kenny? Kenny? Kenny?
Probably everything is testing positive.
A local store has it for 99cents a jar this week. I buy some for the prepper supply.
I saw a 9.99 jar 16 oz of jiff.
Seems a bit high...
I just checked - these are 16oz private-label for 99 cents this week.
Hope to get a few more.
totally seemed to damn high, I passed.
Yeah I’ve seen prices for Chef-Boy-Ardee or however it goes, online, at WM - must be third-party - way higher than in-store price.
I thought this was from the Babylon Bee.
it was my local grocery store, I will take a pic next time. they were selling chicken tenders for 6 bucks a pound.
wow
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