A villager packages salted fish for export (Source: Jakarta Post)Jakarta (VNA) – The Indonesian Government plans to monitor its fishexports to China more strictly after the latter imposed a series of importsuspensions over concerns about coronavirus contamination.
According to the Indonesian Ministry of Maritime Affairs andFisheries, as of November, three Indonesian fish exporters from North Sumatra,East Java and Banten had faced import suspensions from the Chinese customsauthority after it allegedly discovered the novel coronavirus in samples oftheir products.
The Ministry of Trade’s spokesperson Fithra Faisal said thatthe government will step up its efforts to detect the coronavirus in fishexports bound for China and will possibly expand such measures to exports toother countries.
China began testing imported chilled and frozen meat andseafood for the coronavirus in June. The effort was intensified in Novemberafter port workers in Chinese cities tested positive for the virus.
In November, China said it had found the virus on thepackaging of products from 20 countries, including German pork and Indian fish.
On November 10, China had suspended imports fromIndonesian fish exporter PT Anugrah Laut Indonesia for one week after COVID-19was allegedly detected in a sample of frozen fish products supplied by the firm./.
VNA
