COVID-19 Pandemic and Food Safety Issues in Pakistan

Abstract

After the first wave of the pandemic COVID-19, an extra attention is has been paid to the hygienic and safe handling, transportation, and storage of the food materials. As COVID-19 infection is highly transmissible. So, it has been supposed that contracting with the contaminated food, food packages or containers with the SARS-CoV-2 could disseminate the virus in human being. It is generally known that viruses do not multiply in food systems as they require an animal or plant host to multiply. However, until now, no researches have explored the survival of SARS-CoV-2 in food systems. However, a previous study reported the survival of respiratory infectious virus (coronavirus) on surface of lettuce for two days (YépizGómez et al., 2013). These results indicate that the respiratory virus can transfer from the surface of the food to hands and then to the mouth, nose or eyes, and cause infection.

Keywords Covid 19, Pandemic, Food Package , SARS-CoV- 2, Infection.