European Salmon Sales To China Slowly Recovering After Virus Scare

European exports of farmed salmon to China are gradually restarting after a temporary halt due to a coronavirus scare, two exporters and Norway’s seafood marketing organisation said.

Many Chinese buyers halted imports of salmon and the fish was removed from supermarket shelves after the novel coronavirus was found on a chopping board used to cut salmon at a large food market in Beijing last month.

Officials in China and Norway, one of the world’s top farmed salmon exporters, later concluded that imported salmon wasn’t the source of the contamination.

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