Chinese authorities announced last week that they will suspend imports from companies for a week if frozen food products test positive for coronavirus for the first or second time. In case the products test back positive for a third time or more, imports from the producer will be suspended for four weeks, China’s General Administration of Customs said in a statement.
Imports from the companies at issue would resume automatically after the suspension ends, according to Chinese authorities.
Beijing has already tightened checks on imported frozen food cargoes and banned imports from some foreign meat processing plants, as the coronavirus pandemic hit the global food sector, according to Reuters.
The announcement came after authorities found heavy traces of the novel coronavirus at Xinfadi, a large wholesale food market in the country’s capital city.