Chicken from Tyson Foods at a Shanghai store last year.
Photo: Alex Tai/SOPA Images/Zuma PressChinese authorities suspended chicken imports from a Tyson Foods Inc. facility due to what Chinese officials said were Covid-19 infections among the plant’s employees.
The suspension issued Sunday covered products that have arrived in China or are about to arrive there, according to China’s General Administration of Customs. The agency’s order didn’t specify how much chicken the Tyson facility supplied, or other details about the products.
Tyson, the biggest U.S. meat company by sales, is looking into the report, which focused on a Springdale, Ark., chicken plant, a company spokesman said Sunday.
“At Tyson, our top priority is the health and safety of our team members, and we work closely with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service to ensure that we produce all of our food in full compliance with government safety requirements,” the spokesman said.
Tyson on Friday said that since early June, 481 employees across its northwest Arkansas operations, including facilities in Springdale, had tested positive for Covid-19, representing about 13% of the workers tested at those sites. Of the positive cases, Tyson said that 95% were asymptomatic.
Representatives of the Chinese embassy in the U.S. had no immediate comment.
The World Health Organization and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Department of Agriculture and Food and Drug Administration have said there is no evidence that Covid-19 is a foodborne illness, and that it is unlikely to spread via food packaging.
China’s move comes after a fresh outbreak of the new coronavirus rattled the country in recent days. Flights in and out of Beijing have been canceled, restrictions have been placed on entry to the city, and health checks tightened on public transit.
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Chinese officials have been testing imported meat and seafood products for traces of the virus in the past week after the new outbreak was linked to a market where imported meat and fish are sold. Public-health officials had previously sought to assuage fears about seafood—and salmon in particular—as the source of the new outbreak.
On June 18, China suspended imports from a German pork company after German officials confirmed a coronavirus infection at that company, according to China’s State Council.
China this year has ramped up imports of U.S. chicken meat. The world’s biggest pork-consuming country is grappling with a shortfall in hog production after African swine fever outbreaks decimated Chinese hog farms.
Over the first four months of the year, China imported about 56,000 metric tons of U.S.-produced chicken meat, according to the USDA, compared with about 1,200 metric tons in 2019.
China in late 2019 lifted a more than four-year-long ban on U.S. poultry imports, as part of trade negotiations between Washington and Beijing. China implemented the ban after a 2015 avian influenza outbreak hit U.S. turkey and egg-laying chicken operations. Though other countries lifted their own bans on U.S. poultry shipments, China had kept its halt in place, frustrating the U.S. chicken industry.
Write to Jacob Bunge at jacob.bunge@wsj.com and Lucy Craymer at Lucy.Craymer@wsj.com
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