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.
Updated Jan 16, 2021 | 17:01 IST
Three samples of ice cream produced by the Tianjin Daqiaodao Food Company in China have tested positive for COVID-19. Ice cream tests positive for COVID-19 in China | Photo Credit: iStock Images
Tianjin, China: Three samples of ice cream have tested positive for COVID-19 in China. Health authorities are now tracing people who may have come in contact with the ice cream.
The ice creams were produced by the Tianjin Daqiaodao Food Company in the northern Tianjin Municipality.
The company had produced a total of 4,836 boxes, of which 1,812 had been sold to various provinces. As many as 2,089 have now been sealed up and secured, according to