Dragon fruit on the palate
Has always been a favorite of many people
But from New Year's Day to now
Many places reminded that imported dragon fruit nucleic acid test positive
Can you still eat with confidence?
How come it's you again, Dragon Fruit?
On the 12th, Qingchuan County, Guangyuan City, Sichuan Province, released a message saying that the new coronavirus nucleic acid test outside the imported fruit (dragon fruit) of shangpin supermarket in the urban area was positive.
On the same day, Xiuning County, Huangshan City, Anhui Province, issued an emergency search notice saying that a fruit shop had Vietnamese dragon fruit purchased from Jinhua, Zhejiang Province (a local nucleic acid test was positive).
Source: "Xiuning County People's Government Release" public number
Since New Year's Day 2022, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Jiangsu, Shandong, Anhui, Ningxia, Sichuan and other places have found that the nucleic acid test results of imported dragon fruit have been positive.
The fruit on the cusp of the storm, not only the dragon fruit, in the past few days, many places have imported cherries, bananas, longan have also been "recruited".
Imported dragon fruit, why is it easy to "hit"?
Zhuang Jianlin, deputy director of the Shanghai Changning District Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said in an interview, "If you regularly buy fruit, you should find that bulk dragon fruit is basically wrapped in a transparent bag. When imported food is imported, most of them are transported through air channels in whole boxes, and the disinfection of each link of the channel can only involve the outer packaging level, but if the fruit is picked in the country of origin, the fruit farmers and workers themselves have carried the virus, it is possible to let the virus remain on the peel.
He gave the most extreme example, "Dragon fruit with a higher load of virus enters China, distributes it to supermarkets and stores at the end of the supply chain, and is purchased by the public." If the public does not wear a mask, touches the skin of the dragon fruit and then touches their own mouth and nose, and then immediately goes to a medical institution for nucleic acid testing, it is possible to test positive. ”
Will I get infected when I eat it?
Zhuang Jianlin specifically pointed out that this does not mean that he is infected. As Feng Zijian, deputy director of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, once said: Imported goods test positive for new crown nucleic acid only mean that it has been contaminated, which does not mean that it is necessarily contagious.
For the new crown virus to be contagious, it needs to have two characteristics: first, it must be a live virus; second, the viral load must be high enough. "During long-distance transportation, most of the viruses attached to the surface have become 'dead viruses' or nucleic acid fragments of viruses, which is not a concept of 'live viruses' transmitted from person to person."
Infographic: Nucleic acid test report from a fruit shop with cherries.
According to the Jiangsu Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, the new crown pneumonia is not a foodborne disease, and the risk of infection in people who eat fruits is extremely low, and there is no need to panic excessively, but it should be protected. A series of people who are in direct contact with import and export goods, such as logistics workers and stevedor workers, are high-risk groups, and they must be protected in accordance with the prevention and control measures of key groups.
Notices on the import of dragon fruit in many places also remind that those who have purchased such fruits should immediately stop eating, and the remaining food will be temporarily stored on the spot and disposed of by professionals, while doing a good job of personal protection, not in contact with others, and reporting in time.
How to eat is safer?
After that, can you still eat dragon fruit with confidence? How to buy imported fruit to deal with it is safer?
According to the consumption tips of the Taizhou Municipal Market Supervision and Administration Bureau in Zhejiang Province, when purchasing imported cold chain food and imported fruits, you should go to a regular supermarket or market to buy, and do not buy imported cold chain food and imported fruits from unknown sources. Try to avoid online shopping, purchasing on behalf of others, and importing cold chain food and imported fruits.
Data chart: A supermarket in Zhejiang imported fruit into the "Zhejiang food chain" system.
At the same time, when receiving express delivery and mailing packages, personal protection should be done, the surface of the goods should be disinfected, and the hands and disinfected immediately after the parcel delivery was processed.
Experts from the Zhejiang Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention said that after buying imported fruits to go home, they should first spray or wipe the external packaging with alcohol or disinfectant wipes, and then choose the cleaning method according to the characteristics of the fruit, which can be soaked in water for 10 to 20 minutes; they can also choose the qualified fruit cleaner sold on the market for cleaning, and then rinse it with water.
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