Food salt from Hubei with the new coronavirus? Rumors!

Since the outbreak of new crown pneumonia, rumors and rumors about the spread of the epidemic situation, false prevention and control measures spread on the Internet, causing many netizens to misread, but also to the epidemic prevention and control work brought serious interference.
Recently, the China Food Disinformation Alliance received a report from netizens that many people were afraid to buy "Hubei-made" food because of the outbreak of new crown pneumonia, fearing that food would carry the new crown virus, and rumors that the salt produced in Hubei with the virus, the local salt production enterprises have caused a certain impact.
fact, the claim that "salt produced in Hubei has a new coronavirus" is not scientifically based.
21st, the World Health Organization (WHO) released the New Coronary Pneumonia Outbreak Report, giving official advice and targeted recommendations on the possibility of the spread of the new coronavirus through food.
report, despite concerns that the new coronavirus is spreading through food, especially raw animal food, there is no evidence to support this.
even if the new coronavirus is present in food, or food workers are infected, there are several factors that reduce the likelihood that the virus will spread through food.
first, food safety measures to prevent food-borne diseases will reduce the spread of any viral particles through food, including hand washing, washing food surfaces and utensils, and cooking food to an appropriate temperature.
China Food Disinformation Alliance expert group member Yan Guangfeng introduced that the current research evidence on coronavirus shows that the new coronavirus is not heat-resistant, 56 degrees C lasts 30 minutes or 60 degrees C lasts 10 minutes can make the new coronavirus inactive, when the temperature is higher, the time will be shorter.
, the virus can't survive in salt.
because of the high permeability pressure of salt, microorganisms simply cannot survive.
therefore, the average family and catering business can kill the virus while cooking.
, the biological characteristics of the new coronavirus.
unlike bacteria, viruses do not grow in food, so the number of viruses in food decreases over time, not increases.
Finally, Song Zhanjing, vice president of the China Salt Industry Association, said that Hubei Province is the main production area of well ore salt in China, the production of well salt is the use of fresh water buried in the ground thousands of kilometers deep salt karst ore dissolved into salt brine, and then remove impurities in brine, after testing to meet the production of salt brine standards, into the high-temperature evaporation tank for high-temperature evaporation of water out of the crystal is salt.
In addition, the production of well ore salt is through a closed transfer device, divided into small packets of salt, the entire production process is done in a closed fully automatic device, so there will be no new coronavirus.
then one might worry, will the virus attach to the salt package? According to a report released by the World Health Organization, the most commonly used cleaning and disinfection measures can kill the coronavirus, and there is no evidence that the new coronavirus is any different.
even if there is a new coronavirus on the surface of food or food packaging, the amount will not be much and the survival time will not be long.
also means that washing hands after touching the surface of food or food packaging can block the spread of potential viruses.
from this point of view, whether it is "Hubei-made" salt or other food, are not "virus carriers", consumers can not worry, rest assured that Hubei "with goods"! This paper is carried out scientifically by Yan Guangfeng, director of the Science and Technology Department of the Science and Technology Department of the Science and Technology Information Exchange Center of the Science and Technology, and a member of the expert group of the China Food Disinformation Alliance.