China once again prohibits the importation of two companies from Ecuador, due to coronavirus

Published 2021년 8월 4일

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China has temporarily halted imports of frozen shrimp from two Ecuadorian companies, Proexpo and Expalsa, and frozen sea snail meat from a Mauritanian company due to detection of coronavirus traces in their products. This follows similar bans on imports from other countries as Chinese authorities seek to prevent the spread of the virus via importted food. These bans are part of China's efforts to tighten import regulations for products from countries still in the pandemic, following detection of the virus in food products last year. Recently, China has seen its worst outbreak since Wuhan, linked to the delta variant and potentially related to imports of products stored in cold chains.

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The General Administration of Customs of China suspended today, August 4, 2021, temporarily the imports of the products of two Ecuadorian companies after detecting traces of coronavirus through nucleic acid tests in the packages of their frozen products. According to Chinese customs, remains of the coronavirus were found in four samples of three batches of frozen shrimp from Ecuador and exported to China by the companies Proexpo (Procesadora y Exportadora de Mariscos SA) and Expalsa (Exportadora de Alimentos SA). As a preventive measure, the Chinese authorities will not accept export applications from these companies for one and two weeks, respectively. In the same announcement, similar measures were reported against a Mauritanian company after customs found traces of the virus in its packages of frozen sea snail meat. In July of last year, traces of coronavirus were discovered for the first time in the packaging of Ecuadorian white shrimp from three companies in that country. ...

Source: Expreso