{"id":20716,"date":"2020-09-09T09:45:18","date_gmt":"2020-09-09T09:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=20716"},"modified":"2020-09-09T09:45:18","modified_gmt":"2020-09-09T09:45:18","slug":"no-evidence-that-food-is-source-of-coronavirus-transmission-experts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=20716","title":{"rendered":"No Evidence That Food is Source of Coronavirus Transmission: Experts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>TUESDAY, Sept. 8, 2020 (Healthday News) &#8212; It&#8217;s highly unlikely that food is a source of new coronavirus transmission, international experts say.<\/p>\n<p>They found very little evidence that the coronavirus might be carried on food or food packaging, which echoes earlier findings by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, <i>CNN<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To date, there has not been any evidence that food, food packaging or food handling is a source or important transmission route for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medicinenet.com\/severe_acute_respiratory_syndrome_sars\/article.htm\" onclick=\"wmdTrack('embd-lnk');\" rel=\"dt\">SARS<\/a>-CoV-2 resulting in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medicinenet.com\/wuhan_coronavirus_2019-ncov\/article.htm\" onclick=\"wmdTrack('embd-lnk');\" rel=\"dt\">COVID-19<\/a>,&#8221; the International Commission on Microbiological Specifications for Foods said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are no foods that should be considered a risk or warrant consideration as a vector for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medicinenet.com\/severe_acute_respiratory_syndrome_symptoms\/symptoms.htm\" onclick=\"wmdTrack('embd-lnk');\" rel=\"sym\">SARS<\/a>-CoV-2,&#8221; the statement added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"credits\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"MedicalNews\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/images.medicinenet.com\/images\/HealthDay\/healthday.png\" style=\"border: none;\"\/><br \/>Copyright \u00a9 2019 HealthDay. 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