Hunan Province has vigorously promoted the construction of warehouses for the centralized supervision of imported cold-chain foods to prevent the spread of COVID-19 through imported cold-chain foods, according to the Administration for Market Regulation of Hunan Province on April 6th. Three warehouses in Yiyang, Xiangtan, and Yongzhou are being put into service. There are 16 such warehouses in nine cities (prefecture) of Hunan Province.

The warehouses in Yiyang, Xiangtan, and Yongzhou all have set up work management areas and special storage areas for frozen products. As a result, they can provide services for enterprises in an orderly manner. All imported cold-chain livestock and poultry meat, aquatic products, and other key imported cold-chain foods that are circulated from ports inside and outside the province or non-centralized supervision warehouses in cities outside the province to the warehouses will be under unified management. The warehouses will conduct an inspection, disinfection, and nucleic acid testing for these products, which can enter the market only after being certified at the warehouses.

A relevant person in charge of the Administration for Market Regulation of Hunan Province said that constructing warehouses for the centralized supervision of imported cold-chain foods should follow the principle of “ensuring that all those entries in the warehouses should have been inspected and disinfected and taking measures targeting people and objects simultaneously to fend off infections”. Therefore, all cold-chain foods will be under closed-loop management through unified nucleic acid testing, disinfection, temporary storage in cold storage, and records of those coming out of the warehouses. All these will help achieve targeted epidemic prevention and control and reduce the risk of the spread of the epidemic.

This article is from Hunan Provincial Government www.enghunan.gov.cn.
 
Translator: Xiao Juan
 
Chinese source: hunan.gov.cn