U.S. Rebuffs China, Rejecting Links Between Covid and Food (2)

U.S. health and agricultural authorities issued thinly veiled criticism of new demands from China for food-exporting companies to sign documents stating that they comply with safety standards to prevent transmission of Covid-19.

“Efforts by some countries to restrict global food exports related to Covid-19 transmission are not consistent with the known science of transmission,” U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue and FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn said in a joint statement Wednesday.

That’s in line with advice from experts, who have continued to say that food poses little risk of spreading the coronavirus.

It’s the latest rebuff to China, which has issued ...