February 22, 2022

Hong Kong discovers COVID-19 in imported beef and pork packaging

Hong Kong's Centre for Food Safety (CFS) said they discovered COVID-19 in samples from imported frozen beef packaging from Brazil and frozen pork packaging from Poland, Reuters reported.

CFS took 36 samples for testing from a batch of 1,100 cartons of frozen beef imported from Brazil via sea. One outer packaging and two inner packaging samples tested positive for COVID-19.

CFS also took 12 samples from a batch of 300 cartons of frozen pork skin imported from Brazil via sea. One inner packaging sample tested positive for COVID-19.

The importers have been ordered by CFS to dispose the beef and pork skin from the same imported batches.

Hong Kong has previously detected COVID-19 on pomfret fish packaging in August 2021 and cuttlefish packaging in November 2021.

Hong Kong has enforced a "zero COVID-19" strategy similar to mainland China, which aims to eliminate all outbreaks at all costs.

-      Reuters