Multinational meat joint factory into a viral "hotbed", our table of pork also.

As we all know, the community is the focus of the new crown epidemic prevention and control area, but in the global multi-country epidemic tends to stabilize, the economy gradually recovers at the same time, but the meat joint factory has suddenly become the new crown outbreak of the "hotbed."1,029 employees have been diagnosed with a massive new crown virus cluster infection at a meat joint plant in The uteslo county of North Germany, German radio station Bochum and the Rhine Post reported on June 21Prior to this, the United States, Britain, Brazil, Australia and other countries of the meat joint factory has been a number of meat joint factory outbreakrecently, due to the need for epidemic prevention and control, China's General Administration of Customs has also taken measures to suspend the import of pork and poultry meat from German and U.Srelated enterprises and factories, and China's meat import policy has been generally tightenedpork factory has gradually become a hotbed for the spread of the new crown virus(Picture: BBC).Meanwhile, China's pork production capacity has fallen by almost 25 per cent in 2019 under the influence of African swine fever, and the new crown outbreak so far this year has strained domestic pork supply, Gao Guan, deputy secretary-general of the China Meat Association, said in an interview with Time Financial on June 22 nd that the Chinese market demand for pork is huge, but the gap is also relatively large"The rest of the world's pork exports are far from meeting China's demand gap, so the impact of restrictions on imported pork on the domestic pork market is very limited, and the resumption of domestic pig production is the top priority to meet demand."Whymeat joint?Whymeat joint? Everyone who sees news of the meat joint outbreak may ask questionsit is worth noting that the outbreak of the German meat joint plant is by no means an exception, in Germany alone, this is the fifth outbreak of meat co-factory infection since May In fact, as early as April this year, the U.S meat processing giant, Smithfield and Tyson Foods meat joint factory, there have been cluster infections inside the pork processing plant in Tunis, a German meat company (Photo: .　　"There are some uniqueities in the meat processing industry that increase the risk of people contracting the new coronavirus." Christakis, director of The Human Nature Laboratory at Yale University, told Wired magazine for three reasons first of all, meat is the necessity of life, even during the outbreak, to try to ensure its normal operation As early as April 28, U.S President Donald Trump issued an order to classify the meat processing industry as critical infrastructure, forcing workers to restart production lines at a time when the outbreak in the United States was on the rise second, low temperatures and indoor air circulation systems facilitate virus survival Asa, a chemical engineer at the University of California, Davis, , points out that in order to prevent meat from spoiling, meat jointplants need to keep temperatures and ventilation for long periods of time, which allows the virus to survive longer and thus increases the virus's chances of surviving in the air in addition, there is limited space in the meat factory workshop, and workers are densely facilitated by the spread of the virus According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the main risk for meat packers comes from long-term close contact between workers In response, Wired magazine described, "a thousand workers may have to stand side by side for eight hours, handling meat that is shaking on hooks or conveyor belts." Usually, workers have only one or two seconds to complete their tasks before the next batch of meat arrives This rhythm of work can make it difficult for people to breathe and wear masks properly "
in addition to the physical conditions within the meat joint plant, the outbreak of the outbreak also has the european and American socio-economic factors According to German state television, the frequent outbreak of meat joint factories is due to the identity of employees lack of other industries due to the protection and rights because of the "no borders" advantage within the EU, German meat operators were able to sign special contracts with subcontractors to hire workers from Eastern European countries such as Poland, Romania and Bulgaria at lower prices these workers flocked to Germany from Eastern European countries after the closure, and crowded, poorly-sanitary staff editing became a hotbed of the virus opponents even say that meat factories are practising "modern slavery" opponents stand outside the Tunis Meat Joint in Germany, holding placards reading "End modern slavery." (Photo: German state television) .　　According to the German Federal Labour Office, the German meat processing industry employs about 200,000 people, about a third of whom do not have German citizenship and this is even worse in the United States According to a 2016 government accountability office report, 30 percent of meatpacking workers do not have U.S citizenship, CNN reported on May 7 A 2016 report by the Arkansas Workers' Justice Center also showed that Latino workers make up 35 percent of the state's meat joint factories, 20 percent of African-American workers and 8 percent of Asians the huge gap between supply and demand for pork .　　Although the General Administration of Customs of China tested 32,174 samples of imported meat, aquatic products, vegetables, fruits, seafood and transportation and industrial equipment used to maintain the shelf life of perishable goods, all of which tested negative, on June 18, in order to prevent and control the importation of food-related outbreaks But since the virus was previously detected on a salmon board in Beijing's new home, there has been growing public concern about whether meat will carry the virus to this, Gao Guan pointed out that China's meat products in the production end to control very well, so far China's meat enterprises have not yet appeared a case of new crown pneumonia infection In contrast, European and American meat enterprises' epidemic prevention and control measures are not in place pork products from Germany (Picture: BBC) .　　In fact, the China Meat Association as early as February this year issued a "meat products production and processing enterprises new coronavirus epidemic prevention and control guidelines," and the guide has been updated to the third edition According to Gao guan, The chinese authorities are also actively communicating with European and American meat companies to strengthen quarantine intensity requirements and assist in tracing risky meat products .　　"But loopholes are in the wholesale market." In the light of the recent outbreak in Beijing, Gao guan believes that the vast majority of sales ends have only a license, no production license, "but for example, supermarkets will also reprocess or repackage meat." Tools such as case boards used in this process have not been strictly monitored before In addition to the safety of meat , the supply gap in pork is also a long-term concern notable, in the first half of 2019, China's pork imports accounted for only 2% of total domestic consumption After the outbreak of swine fever in Africa in the second half of 2019, China's domestic pork supply was in short supply and became more dependent on imports According to the 2019-2025 China Pig Industry Market In-depth Monitoring and Investment Opportunities Research Report published by The Institute, global pork exports are mainly contributed by EU countries (34.7%), the United States (31.5%), Canada (15.7%), Brazil (730,000 tons, or 8.6%) (Source: China's Pig Industry Market In-depth Monitoring and Investment Opportunities Research Report 2019-2025) .　　But in terms of totals, global pork exports have remained at more than 8m tonnes over the past three years, while China's pork demand gap in recent years has been close to 10m tonnes This means that even if all global pork exports are supplied to China, it will not be able to fill the supply gap , Xin Xiangfei, an associate researcher at the Institute of Agricultural Economics and Development of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, believes that although the phenomenon of oversupply in China's pork market is the norm, the contradiction between supply and demand in China's pork market has actually eased at this stage in an interview with Time Financial on June 22nd, Xin Xiangfei pointed out that although domestic pork supply fell year-on-year and faced "internal and external worries", the outbreak has also led to a sharp drop in demand for pork "Demand in many schools, outdoor fast food and catering has not yet fully returned to normal levels, so the current domestic pork market supply and demand contradictions are not so serious, the overall situation is good." June 2020, the average wholesale price of pork in China increased by 87.8% year-on-year (Photo source: , official website of China's Rural Ministry of Agriculture.　　In addition, in response to the recent rise in pork prices, the Chinese government will also put another 20,000 tons of frozen pork on the market on June 23, in line with China's import edifice standards, by the State Inspection and Quarantine Agency inspection and quarantine qualified import edifice "In fact, the Chinese government began to put frozen meat reserves on the market as early as October 2019, and the release of frozen meat reserves is conducive to the stability of meat prices," said "
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