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Finbarr Bermingham, Orange Wang and Keegan Elmer in Beijing
Published: 3:58pm, 17 Jun, 2020
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While a European Commission spokesman said “there is no formal ban or import restriction in place”, traders have confirmed Beijing has stopped imports of all fresh products. European exporters are now anxiously waiting for clarification.
“We have not had contact with local authorities. Our understanding is that the current situation is causing some logistical implications for fresh salmon to the market,” said Victoria Braathen, China director at the Norwegian Seafood Council.
“We are monitoring the development in the market closely. The Norwegian Food Safety Authority is clear that the coronavirus does not affect seafood safety as there are no known cases of infection via contaminated food, imported food or water.”
Nonetheless, salmon, along with other imported meat and seafood products, has been removed from the shelves of major supermarkets across China while authorities test meat and seafood imports for traces of the virus.
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Shi Guoqing, deputy director of the emergency centre at the Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, said on Tuesday there was no evidence that salmon was the host or intermediate host of the coronavirus.The virus was not detected on the fish before entering the contaminated site in the Xinfadi market, he added.
Despite the assurance, salmon’s appeal in the world’s biggest consumer market was likely to take a hit, analysts said.
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Norway is the world’s biggest salmon exporter, followed by Chile. While its primary exports are giant volumes of crude oil and petroleum products from their North Sea fields, fresh and frozen fish products come next. In the first five months of the year, it shipped 9,600 tonnes of salmon to China, a 5 per cent decrease on the previous year due to the coronavirus, according to the Norwegian Salmon Council.
“China was the largest growth market for Norwegian salmon in 2019, and when circumstances are back to normal, we look forward to further developing the China market for Norwegian salmon,” said Braathen at the Norwegian Seafood Council.
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By GM09 -2020-06-19 01:23
Author: Horus莲花
Since the resurgence of COVID-19 infection cases in Beijing on June 11, salmon has quickly become a major suspect in the spread of the virus. Even the detected virus appeared on the chopping board of salmon and no one knows whether the salmon carried the virus or the chopping board was contaminated by the person carrying the virus, but this did not hinder the national panic and caused the salmon to be removed from the supermarket. This truly made the salmon “dead without closing eyes” (A literal translation of a Chinese proverb implying gross injustice). There was a “scape-goat” in ancient times and a “scape-salmon” today.
Salmon has set off a hotspot on the Internet. There is no doubt that this is under the CCP’s manipulation of public opinions, and its purpose is nothing more than the following.
First, it was to distract everyone’s attention and cover up the important fact that the CCP does not know the source of the virus outbreak in Beijing. For the officials in Beijing who manage the city “under the feet of the emperor”, this was a disaster that could trigger anger from the emperor and complaints from the public. So, their strategy is to throw out the salmon and divert everyone’s attention; then extend to the main source of imported salmon: that is Norway (such as in Sina’s report), not only condemning the “unbearable and evil breeding site of salmon”, but also using scientists to suggest that the virus came from Europe.
Second, it was to make full use of foreign trade and import control to influence and attack on foreign governments. The most recent example is Australia, who criticized the CCP’s government for covering up the pandemic. As a result, the CCP stopped importing beef from Australia and imposed an 80.5% tariff on imported barley as retaliation. In 2010, the Nobel Peace Prize Committee in Norway awarded the peace prize to Mr. Liu Xiaobo, who was still imprisoned by CCP, in recognition “for his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China.”. Immediately afterward, the Chinese Communist Party dramatically reduced salmon imports from Norway and terminated negotiations on fishery cooperation.
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Coronavirus Fears in China Find a New Target: Salmon
Suppliers and restaurants are scrambling after an outbreak in Beijing triggered fears that salmon may have spread it. Officials later absolved the fish of blame, but consumers are avoiding it anyway
By Amy Qin
June 18, 2020
When a new coronavirus outbreak emerged last week in Beijing, residents were jolted by reports that traces of the virus had been found on a cutting board used for imported salmon, and the backlash was swift.
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https://twitter.com/KittySn52889207/status/1273411774633537536?s=19
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