Multiple alerts for imported dragon fruit positive for nucleic acid! Is it still safe to eat?

The sweet-tasting dragon fruit has been the favorite of many people. But since New Year's Day, many places have been reminded that imported dragon fruit tested positive for nucleic acid, can you still feel safe to eat to eat?

Recently, Sichuan Province, Guangyuan City, Qingchuan County released news that the city Shangpin supermarket imported fruit (dragon fruit) outside the environment of the new crown virus nucleic acid test positive. On the same day, Huangshan City, Anhui Province, Huoning County issued an emergency search notice that a fruit shop had Vietnamese dragon fruit purchased from Jinhua, Zhejiang Province (local nucleic acid test positive).

And since New Year's Day 2022, imported dragon fruit has been found to test positive for nucleic acid in Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Jiangsu, Shandong, Anhui, Ningxia and Sichuan. In the wind on the tip of the fruit, not only dragon fruit a, in the past few days, many places imported carrion, bananas, longan also have "hit".

Imported dragon fruit, why is it easy to "hit"?

Shanghai Changning District Center for Disease Control and Prevention deputy director Zhuang Jianlin said in an interview, "such as often buy fruit people should find, bulk dragon fruit also basically have a transparent packaging bag package.

Most of the imported food is transported in full containers through the air channel, and the disinfection of the various links in the channel can only involve the outer packaging level, but if the farmers and workers who pick and pack the fruit in the country of origin are already carrying the virus themselves, it is possible for the virus to remain on the fruit skin as well.

He gave the most extreme example: "Dragon fruit with a high virus load enters China, is distributed to supermarkets and stores at the end of the supply chain, and then purchased by the public. It is possible for a member of the public to test positive if they are not wearing a mask, touch the skin of the dragon fruit and then touch their own mouth and nose, and immediately afterwards go to a medical facility for nucleic acid testing."

Can I get infected if I eat it?

Zhuang Jianlin specifically pointed out that this does not mean being infected either. As Feng Zijian, deputy director of the Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, has said: A positive nucleic acid test for imported goods for new coronavirus only means that it has been contaminated before, it does not necessarily mean that it is infectious.

For a new coronavirus to be infectious, it needs to have two characteristics: first, it must be a live virus; second, the viral load must be high enough. "During long-distance transportation, most of the virus attached to the surface of the object has become 'dead virus' or nucleic acid fragments of the virus, which is not the same concept as a 'live virus' transmitted from person to person."

According to the Jiangsu Provincial Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, the new coronary pneumonia is not a food-borne disease and the risk of infection for people who eat fruit is extremely low, so there is no need to be overly alarmed, but they should be protected.

Logistics workers, stevedores and a range of other people who are in direct contact with imported and exported goods are high-risk groups and must be protected according to the preventive and control measures for key populations.

The circulars on imported dragon fruit in many places also warn that people who have bought such fruit should stop eating it immediately, store the remaining food in situ for temporary disposal by professionals, and do their personal protection by not coming into contact with other people and making timely reports.