Updated: Jan 17, 2021, 12:10 PM IST
In yet another bad news coming from China, Coronavirus has been detected by Chinese officials in samples of ice cream in the eastern region. The move forced the authorities to seize the products which are believed to be potentially contaminated.
It is learnt that the Chinese officials have sealed Daqiaodao Food Co Ltd, situated in Tianjin. The company is located adjacent to Beijing. All employees of the company were being tested for the coronavirus. It is still unknown whether anyone has contracted the virus from the ice cream.
The local government that majority of the 29,000 cartons in the batch were not sent to the shops and around 390 sold in Tianjin were being tracked down. It is believed that the coronavirus survived in ice cream because of the cold temperature. Experts maintained that it is likely that the COVID-19 reached the ice cream through an infected person.
COVID-19 In Food: Ice Cream Products Test Positive For Virus
01/16/21 AT 12:40 PM
A Chinese company has been forced to discard thousands of boxes of ice cream after three samples of the frozen treat tested positive for COVID-19.
On Friday, news broke that chocolate, strawberry, and taro ice cream produced by the Tianjin Daqiaodao Food Company were contaminated with the coronavirus, Huff Post reports.
The contaminated batches of ice cream were produced using raw materials, including whey powder imported from Ukraine and milk powder imported from New Zealand.
Although 4,836 boxes are expected to be contaminated, the Tianjin Daqiaodao Food Company has already sealed away 2,089 boxes of the COVID-19 positive ice cream, Sky News reports.