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FDA: No need to wipe down food packaging

By Caitlin Yilek
Published April 17, 2020 2:19pm ET
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FDA: No need to wipe down food packaging
Grocery shoppers do not need to sanitize food packaging once they get home, according to the Food and Drug Administration. “We want to reassure consumers that there is currently no evidence of human or animal food or food packaging being associated with transmission of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19,” the agency said in a post […]

Grocery shoppers do not need to sanitize food packaging once they get home, according to the Food and Drug Administration.

“We want to reassure consumers that there is currently no evidence of human or animal food or food packaging being associated with transmission of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19,” the agency said in a post current as of Thursday.

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