FDA: Coronavirus not spread via food or food packaging

By David Hogberg

Published February 18, 2021 8:14pm ET

FDA: Coronavirus not spread via food or food packaging — This Sept. 6, 2011 photo, shows a Smithfield ham at a grocery store in Richardson, Texas. Smithfield Foods Inc.'s fiscal first-quarter net income rose 8 percent, as the world's biggest hog producer charged higher prices and sold more packaged meats. (AP Photo/LM Otero) | LM Otero

The coronavirus is not transmitted via food or food packaging, the Food and Drug Administration confirmed Thursday.

In a joint press release with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the FDA said that “there is no credible evidence of food or food packaging associated with or as a likely source of viral transmission” of the coronavirus.

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