China plans to stop testing imported chilled and frozen food for coronavirus. The move is expected to reduce costs and speed up movement of goods.
China's meat trade on Friday cheered the imminent end of testing and disinfectingfor COVID-19, more than two years after Beijing started the controversial practice, adding substantial costs to the trade.
It will also no longer require all imported chilled and frozen foods to enter centralized warehouses for disinfection and testing before they reach the domestic market.The dropping of measures follows a similar announcement from the customs authority on Wednesday that it will stop testing cold-chain food arriving at the country's ports.
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