China says frozen chicken wings from Brazil tested positive for coronavirus

[SheltieLover]

https://www.localmemphis.com/mobile/article/news/health/coronavirus/china-says-frozen-chicken-wings-from-brazil-tested-positive-for-coronavirus/507-fc8ec639-fccc-4cab-9278-7d06f11ba11d

sample taken from the surface of frozen chicken wings imported from Brazil into the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen has tested positive for coronavirus, officials in China said Thursday.

Health authorities said they tested everyone who might have come into contact with the products and so far no one has tested positive. The city's notice said all related products were sealed off and tested negative as well.

More at link.

[soothsayer]

1. The packaging? The food itself?

Is this a danger?

[SheltieLover]

2. Dunno

[still_one]

3. They have seen Sars CO v2 in dogs so I don't know why it couldn't be in other animals

[SheltieLover]

4. Me either

But someone infected could have coughed on it.

Sadly, this is precisely why I haven't had any restaurant foid since early March.

[Brother Buzz]

5. Coals to Newcastle?

This is the second story today about Covid -19 and cold food. New Zealand had an outbreak at a cold storage unit, but the jumped right on it and contained it.

[SheltieLover]

6. Yes, NZ did!

But they have a real leader who is not deliberately destroying her country.

[Igel]

7. Not a horribly useful report.

Food likely isn't a large source on contamination, cooking kills most things, and there's scant (good) evidence for formites as a means of transmission.

[SheltieLover]

8. Ty

I'm thinking plastic packaging in New Zealand. Just my gut feeling.

[soothsayer]

13. I think it's going to be on the packaging

[ProfessorGAC]

20. It Destroys The CV

Cv19 denatures at 135°F in 15 minutes (900 seconds). 135°F is around 57°C.
The roots of denaturation are zero or first order reactions, so every 10°C doubles the rate.
Most of our meats are cooked at 375-450°F. Let's use 400.
That's 217°C. 160°C higher than the 15 minute denaturation.
2^16 is 65,536. 900 seconds ÷ 65,536 is roughly a 70th of a second. No cooking is completed in 14 milliseconds.
The virus will not be viable at cooking temperatures.
In addition, the presence of hydrochloric acid & lipase in the stomach (and the latter in the intestinal tract) makes the likelihood of lipid layer destruction and chlorine ion denaturation failing to destroy the virus rapidly approach zero.
So, ingestion is an unlikely route of infection.

[edhopper]

9. And why is food like chicken

sent half way around the World for processing?

[SheltieLover]

10. No doubt for greed

[edhopper]

11. no doubt.

[soothsayer]

12. More to this story. Just heard New Zealand's new cases came from cold storage workers

Maybe China is on to something here.

[SheltieLover]

14. I could be wrong

But I think NZ story came before China's.

[soothsayer]

15. Right but China has been reporting it on imported goods for some time

Weeks? Months?

I remember earlier stories.

[SheltieLover]

16. Ty

I didn't see earlier stories from China.

Tyvm!

[soothsayer]

18. Ha! I always tuck away "should I be worried about this?" nuggets

[soothsayer]

17. July 10 story--outer packaging

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-shrimp-idUSKBN24B234

From July 10

Snip

China’s customs authority said samples from shipments from Industrial Pesquera Santa Priscila SA, Empacreci SA and Empacadora Del Pacifico Sociedad Anonima had produced six positive results. However, tests on the frozen shrimp and inner packaging were negative.

The findings are the first positive results announced by Beijing since it began testing imported frozen foods for presence of the virus.

“The test results suggested that the container environment and the outer packaging of the goods of the three companies were at risk of contamination ... and the companies’ food safety management system was not in order,” the General Administration of Customs said in a statement on its website.

[SheltieLover]

19. Tyvvvm!]

[PatSeg]

21. So, they don't have chickens in China?

It is so bizarre to me that countries would import frozen food from thousands of miles away. Wouldn't it be cheaper and probably safer to raise your own chickens?

I remember living very close to the garlic capital of the country and finding garlic from China in the grocery store.