Hong Kong Still Monitoring Food Imports for COVID-19, USDA Warns
Hong Kong continues to conduct random COVID-19 testing on imports of chilled and frozen foods, USDA's Foreign Agricultural Service said in a March 9 report, and recently detected the virus on several imports from Brazil and Poland. The shipments included…
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frozen beef from Brazil and frozen pork skin from Poland, USDA said. Hong Kong hasn’t allowed the imports to enter its market and ordered the importers to “dispose of the entire batch of affected products.” The government also ordered affected warehouses to “conduct thorough cleaning and disinfection,” USDA said.