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Panic in China: Ice Cream Found Positive for Corona | Israel today

2021-01-17T13:19:44.309Z


| Food News Thousands of boxes of ice cream were destroyed after the corona virus was found in them, factory workers were sent for isolation • Only 65 packages were sold and the Chinese authorities are looking for the buyers Caution: Sticky Ice Cream (Illustration) Photography:  Getty Images Tianjin city authorities, numbering about ten million citizens, have in recent days embarked on a huge operation t


Thousands of boxes of ice cream were destroyed after the corona virus was found in them, factory workers were sent for isolation • Only 65 packages were sold and the Chinese authorities are looking for the buyers

  • Caution: Sticky Ice Cream (Illustration)

    Photography: 

    Getty Images

Tianjin city authorities, numbering about ten million citizens, have in recent days embarked on a huge operation to collect ice cream containers and search for people who ate ice cream made by a local company called Tianjin Daqiadeo, after more than 5,000 packages of ice cream were found in its corona virus. 

The reason is a mass infection among the employees of the ice cream factory, the source of which is currently unknown.

Many of the company's employees became infected and transmitted the virus, unknowingly of course, to the ice cream itself.

According to the Chinese government, 29,000 "suspicious" packages were produced at the factory, of which, as mentioned, more than 5,000 were positive for the virus. 

2,000 packages were destroyed after being found in the company's refrigerated warehouses and were not marketed and the Chinese authorities were able to locate a similar number of packages sent to various provinces in China but not yet sold.

In practice, after a arduous journey, the Chinese authorities lack 65 packs of ice cream that have been sold and opened and now a kind of hunt is underway for the buyers.

According to media reports, authorities in the area are asking consumers to report symptoms, if any, in order to prevent the chain of infection as early as possible. 

In this regard, virologist Dr Stephen Griffin of Leeds University was interviewed by the British network Sky News and referred to the panic that has begun to form around the issue of infection through foods: "Any level of infection is a bad thing to worry about," he said. .

"What happened at the Chinese plant is probably the result of poor hygiene or some sort of problem with the production line," the expert explained.

Meanwhile, initial epidemiological investigations conducted by the Chinese indicate that Tianjin produced the ice cream dish using raw materials including milk powder imported from New Zealand and whey powder imported from Ukraine.

It should be noted that China investigates and even disinfects any frozen product that has entered its territory since the outbreak of the plague, as part of its claim that the corona did not develop in China but was imported to it by external frozen products.

Source: israelhayom

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