CDC Reports That Food and Its Packaging are Highly Unlikely to Transmit COVID-19
It’s been a little more than a year into the global Covid-19 pandemic and there’s still “no credible evidence” that people can catch the virus from food or food packaging, top U.S. food and health officials said Thursday.
While there have been some scientific studies that have identified Covid-19 particles on food packaging, most of that research is finding the genetic fingerprint of the virus, not a live virus that can result in human infection, according to a joint press release from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Transmission of the virus via food or food packaging is highly unlikely because the amount of virus particles that a person could theoretically pick up by touching a contaminated surface isn’t enough to generate an infection via oral inhalation.
