China ice cream laced with coronavirus

I don't know about you, but I like my ice cream without sprinkles and without coronavirus. Three ice cream samples from a Chinese company tested positive for COVID-19 and have thus been confiscated. As Martha Stewart would say, "That's a good thing."

The ice cream comes from Tianjin Daqiaodao Food Company. They were forced to dump 2.089 boxes of the disease-laden product but officials believe that more than twice that amount--4,836--has been contaminated, according to a Sky News report.

Over half the total boxes of the ice cream have already been distributed for sale when the discovery was made. Market regulation authorities in other provinces outside Tianjin, China, where the ice cream was sent, were notified of the problem, and customers who may have purchased the product are being told to report their health to community officials if they are still alive and able to travel.

According to the report, 1,662 employees were tested at the company Thursday and were quarantining.

Officials believe the coronavirus was able to survive in the ice cream due to the cold temperature and was likely transferred from a person who had the disease, but a virologist at the University of Leeds ["go Lab Rats!"], Dr. Stephen Griffin, that he believes the instance of contamination is probably a "one-off" and not a broader contamination issue within the plant itself.

Dr. Griifin said, "Of course, any level of contamination is not acceptable and always a cause for concern, but the chances are that this is the result of an issue with the production plant and potentially down to hygiene at the factory." 

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