The General Administration of Customs implements emergency preventive measures for overseas enterprises importing cold chain food

News from this newspaper (Reporter Lian He) In order to prevent the risk of importing cold chain food from the new coronary pneumonia epidemic and protect the health and safety of consumers, the General Administration of Customs has recently implemented emergency measures for overseas manufacturers of imported cold chain food that have tested positive for the nucleic acid of the new coronavirus.

The measures pointed out that if the same overseas production enterprise exports cold chain food or its packaging to China and is tested positive for the new coronavirus nucleic acid for the first and second time, the customs will suspend the acceptance of the enterprise's product import declaration for one week, and automatically resume after the expiration; the same If an overseas manufacturer has been tested positive for the new coronavirus nucleic acid three times or more, the customs will suspend the acceptance of the import declaration of the enterprise's products for 4 weeks, and will automatically resume after the expiration

After the outbreak of the novel coronavirus pneumonia, the General Administration of Customs sent a letter to the competent authorities of 105 countries (regions) involved in the export of cold chain food to China, asking them to follow the relevant guidelines issued by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO).

As of September 7, the General Administration of Customs has inspected 76 meat, aquatic products, dairy products, and frozen fruit companies in 30 countries (regions)