OSLO, June 17 — Norway said today that its salmon was not the source of the recently discovered outbreak of the new coronavirus in Beijing, after many Chinese restaurants and retailers stopped selling imports of the fish. Norwegian salmon came under scrutiny in China after a recently discovered...
File picture shows a salmon leaping from the water at Cargill’s research centre in Dirdal, Norway, August 1, 2018. — Reuters pic
“The issue is being resolved. We’re working out the details today,” said fisheries minister Odd Emil Ingebrigtsen, quoted by TDN Finans. Major supermarket chains including Wumart and Carrefour removed all stocks of salmon in the capital, but said supplies of other products would not be affected, Beijing Daily reported Saturday.Contacted by AFP, the Chinese embassy in Oslo did not provide any immediate comment.“I think it’s unlikely,” Bjorn Olav Kvamme, head of the disease and infection section at Norway’s Institute of Marine Research, told AFP.
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